April 16 (UPI) --A symbolic lighting of the Olympic torch early Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, heralded the coming of the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. The ceremony at the site of the stadium ...

The torch will now travel on a 68-day relay before it arrives in the French capital, where it will set ablaze the Olympic Flame and signal the start of the Olympic Games on July 26, the report noted.

On April 16, a group gathered in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the games, to kick off the ceremony with a traditional lighting of the Olympic torch. Actress Mary Mina starred as the high ...

Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...

ATHENS--Greece's Olympic Committee said it had cancelled the remainder of the Olympic Torch relay through the country on Friday to avoid attracting crowds that could raise the risk of coronavirus ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...

(ATR) The torch relay for the 2016 Olympics nears the end of the Greek portion of its journey to Rio de Janeiro. Torchbearers will carry the flame across Greece for seven days, ending with a ...

Hundreds of runners across Asia took part in the Olympic torch relay for the 1964 Tokyo ... “The flame came all the way from Greece,” he says. “It was meant to burn out only after the ...

(ATR) The Youth Olympic Flame was lit today in Panathenaic ... to the first of four young athletes from Norway and Greece as the Torch Relay began in the venerable stadium, which was home to ...

The Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo Games finally started ... The flame arrived in Japan from Greece in March 2020. It has been on display in 14 prefectures, including Hokkaido, since the ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...