Olympics: Torch bearers

Athletics: Carolina Kluft, (Sweden)

There had been talk of Kluft since she took the Heptathlon titles at the World Junior Championships and European Championships in 2002. That year, at only 19, the Swedish public voted her Swede of the year. But nobody was really expecting the splash she would make at the World Championships in Paris last summer.

She took the title scoring 7001 points - the third highest points tally in Heptathlon history.