One of the most valuable Olympic torches used to ignite the ceremony flame is up for auction, and its bidding price starts at a whopping $151,250. The listing for the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter ...

He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

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.

Exactly one month since the start of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay’s journey across Russia, a Soyuz TMA-11M was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch ...

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 ...

A man celebrating being given the right to remain in the UK after a 19-year wait now hopes to carry the Olympic torch in Paris next month. Mohammed Zaman arrived in London from Bangladesh in 2005 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 1,000 Special Olympic athletes are in the Philadelphia area this weekend to compete at the Special Olympics Pennsylvania ...

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 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 ...