The South Korean international football player Park Ji-Sung will be the second torch bearer in ancient Olympia who will take the Olympic Flame from the torch of Apostolos Angelis outside the Pierre de Coubertin Grove.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee in cooperation with the Organizing Committees of Olympic Games have decided to appoint as second torchbearer a person coming from the Olympic City. Park Ji-Sung had been in the past a player for Manchester United and of Eindhoven.