The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...

Galina Shlyakhov was one of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics torchbearers thanks to a gratitude ... asked entrants to write a ...

The 101-day domestic torch relay begins on November 1 when the Olympic Flame - lit in Greece on October 24 - arrives in Incheon, Korea. (ATR) The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday ...

Salma Hayek joined notable French celebrities, public figures and athletes for the official Torch Relay in Versailles ahead of the Paris Olympics on Tuesday. The relay in the French city comes ...

Before the Olympic torch makes its way to Los Angeles in four years, it made a stop in Kern County for a special group of ...

One of the first runners in the Tokyo Olympics torch relay has dropped out of the event scheduled for Thursday, the Games organizing committee said on Wednesday. Homare Sawa, captain of Japan’s ...

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What happens when a beloved Chinese giant panda encounters the Olympic torch relay? Yuan Zi, a giant panda living in France, perhaps says, “I don’t quite understand the torch relay.

The ceremony marks the culmination of an 11-day Olympic Torch Relay across Greece and begins an epic three-month torch relay and countdown to the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on ...

A man has been detained on suspicion of planning an attack on the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said. He gave few details but praised police for ...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach confirmed yesterday that the torch relay for this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will include a stop at a refugee camp in Athens. Bach also ...