COLUMBUS, Ohio — Stephanie Spielman says she'll be representing all cancer survivors in Ohio when she carries the Olympic torch for 3 1/2 blocks through downtown Columbus Wednesday morning.

        “I'm just kind of there because I'm the representative,” she told WCMH-TV in an interview broadcast Thursday. “The cancer survivors' representative for the Olympic torch and that's all I want to be.”

        Ms. Spielman was nominated for the torch-carrying by Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, himself a cancer survivor.

        Ms. Spielman said that since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 and then again this past year, she never sat back and wondered, “hy me?”

        Instead, she and her husband, former Ohio State and pro football star Chris Spielman, established the Stephanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research, which has generated nearly $2 million.

        Ms. Spielman partnered with the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University to create “Stephanie's Champions,” an event that honors caregivers.

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