There perhaps is not a more symbolic and equally visible item at the Olympic Games than the Olympic torch. Whether it was ...

With 100 days to go until the Paris 2024 Olympics begins, the flame has been lit and the torch relay across Europe is already ...

Every Olympic Games begins with the Olympic torch relay. The torch is lit in Greece and passed from one torchbearer to the next. In the end it reaches whichever city is hosting the games.

Olympic history goes back nearly 2,800 years, and a big part of that history is the Olympic torch. How bright is your Olympic torch knowledge? Take this quiz to find out What information do we ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...

The torch made its way through northwest Beijing on Friday morning, as torchbearers trekked through cold conditions past the Summer Palace and the former imperial gardens. Among the torchbearers was ...

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first to hold a torch relay in Asia, taking in 11 cities. Passing through war-torn Asia Kuno Akiko was an interpreter for the Japanese team that orchestrated the ...

An Olympic torch from the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble that was recently purchased by Ripley Entertainment is on display at the company’s corporate office in Orlando on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.

The annual torch runs bring together participants from around the United States and more than 40 countries to support the Special Olympics athletes at local events, including the one held Sept.

ATLANTA—Who will carry the Olympic flame in the 15,000-mile 1996 Olympic Torch Relay? Americans answered that question themselves by serving on community-based judging panels to select "heroes ...

The 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee on Feb. 25 announced a new set of guidelines for the Olympic torch relay, scheduled to start in a month, to reduce the risk of infection from the novel ...