RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hows this for last-minute notice?After Pele relinquished his starring role in the opening ceremony in slightly mysterious circumstances, marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima only had an hours notice that he would carry the flame to light the Olympic cauldron on Friday.The 46-year-old de Lima told the story to a group of Brazilian sports journalists who accidentally ran into him buying beer at a gas station after the show ended in Rio de Janeiro. He was still wearing his Rio 2016 outfit.I never thought that I could be that person to light the cauldron, he said.It came 12 years after his hopes of winning Olympic gold were ended by an Irish spectator wearing a kilt, knee-socks and a beret tackling him while leading the Athens marathon. Instead of gold, he fell back to take bronze.Long since retired from top-level running, De Lima wasnt destined to be the focal point of the first Olympics in his homeland.Brazil soccer great Pele was the preferred choice of organizers to light the cauldron but left them in the lurch.Pele, 75, said Wednesday he was already committed to working for an unnamed sponsor on the day of the opening ceremony. Several of his commercial backers -- sandwich chain Subway, watchmaker Hublot and credit card company Mastercard -- are rivals of official Olympic sponsors McDonalds, Omega and Visa.Still, Pele announced he would try to adjust his travel plans to make the Maracana Stadium ceremony.And yet by Friday, the three-time World Cup winner was citing illness as the reason to relinquish the lighting honor.We had, obviously as you do on these occasions, Plan A, B, C, D, E, Rio organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada said Saturday. Pele, when we invited him, informed us that he was coming out of surgery and he needed medical approval to do that.We prepared special help for him if he needed it during the ceremony. We also decided to wait until the last moment to decide which the plan was, allowing him more time to improve his condition and to get medical authorization.But Andrada said doctors advised Pele against putting his body through the long ceremony.Pele did hold the Olympic flame two weeks ago when the torch relay traveled through Santos, the city in the outskirts of Sao Paulo where he started his football career. He never took part in the Olympics as a player. John Smoltz Jersey . And follow TSN.ca right through Deadline Day for all the updates. 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PITTSBURGH -- Both teams are coming off meaningful wins Saturday night, but the Pittsburgh Penguins and Arizona Coyotes are in markedly different places going into their game on Monday at PPG Paints Arena.The Penguins staged yet another comeback for their season-high fifth win in a row, beating the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 in Tampa, Fla., and are near the top of the NHL standings.The Coyotes broke a season-long six-game losing streak (0-4-2) with a 4-1 win over Nashville but remain near the bottom of the league standings.Pittsburgh has a fully healthy roster and is getting great production from its stars. Sidney Crosby leads the league with 20 goals (in 22 games) and, with 31 points, is an early challenger for the Art Ross Trophy. Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel are on Crosbys heels with 30 points each.Crosby and Malkin each scored twice and Kessel and Kris Letang each had three assists Saturday, when the Penguins overcame a two-goal deficit for the 14th time in Mike Sullivans 51 wins since he took over as coach a year ago Monday.It was also the league-leading sixth time Pittsburgh has won when trailing after two periods.We shouldnt make a habit of (falling behind), but we believe we can score when were playing the right way, Crosby said.Pittsburgh was 5-5-1 in its 11 games before this winning streak, which has the players feeling nearly invincible.We have lots of confidence, Malkin said. We know we can score two, three goals if were losing after the second. We have a good feeling. We come back to the ice and it doesnt matter. Play our hockey.Thats easier with an intact club. The Penguins have lost several players to injury for periods of time, including Crosby, Letang, Patric Hornqvist, Chris Kunitz and Matt Murray, the young goalie who seems likely to start Monday. Now they are at a point where it is just a matter of determining who will be healthy scratches.ddddddddddddTo have a full complement of players makes our decisions difficult, but theyre good challenges to have, Sullivan said.Arizona has different challenges.Winger Max Domi, second on the team with 16 points, is out on what the club calls a week-to-week basis because of an upper-body injury.He was coming around after a bit of a slow start, but he creates a lot of chances, Coyotes coach Dave Tippett told the Arizona Republic. Hes an impact player, so when you lose a guy like that, its opportunity for other guys. But when you lose top players like that, you have to overcome it.The Coyotes did that Saturday with a lot of help from their youth.Rookies Laurent Dauphin (one goal), Brendan Perlini (one goal), Lawson Crouse (one assist), Jakob Chychrun (one assist) and Tyler Gaudet (one assist) combined for five points.Thats were hoping for, Tippett said. We need to get these young players up and going, as well as have our veterans kind of lead the charge for us.Still, the Coyotes are trying to sort things out with their lineup, particularly in search of offense. Their win Saturday marked their first time scoring four goals in more than a month. 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