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

The Olympic flame has been lit in Olympia, Greece, kicking off the torch relay for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ahead of each ...

(ATR) Ancient Olympia prepares for its biennial moment in the sun. The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at the site where the Games began ...

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 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 ...

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.

TOYOKAWA, Aichi Prefecture—Shinfuji Burner Co., a manufacturer of combustion appliances here, has entered the final stage of producing key components of the Olympic torch for the Paris Games ...

In Olympic gymnastics, the score for an athlete is based on two different components; the Execution Score and Difficulty Score. Each Execution Score starts at 10.0 points. The judges on the execution ...

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 official route for the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay has been revealed - and it will pass through several Lancashire towns. The Olympic torch will set off from Land’s End on May 19 and ...