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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Meet the Stampfli Express - a 24-seater rowing boat which will be a part of the Paris 2024 Olympic torch relay on Sunday. Just days before the start of the Olympic Games, the impressive shell will ...

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 ...