Watch as the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to an end with the lighting of the Olympic flame and Celine Dion's performance on the Eiffel Tower. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, April 16. /TASS/. An Olympic flame will be lit at a ceremony in ancient Olympia on Tuesday for the 2024 summer games in Paris. The ceremony will be attended by Greek President ...

Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the enormous cauldron comprises 40 LED spotlights and 200 misting nozzles and is tethered to what ...

Twenty-four athletes would wind up with a temporary hold on the torch, with the final job going to ... of the French motto of equality and fraternity. The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ...

Overflowing with national pride, the Greek media, seconded by the country’s grandiloquent authorities, don’t miss the opportunity to present this veritable re-enactment of a Nazi ceremony, namely the ...

The Paris Games are over, the Olympic flame that hung suspended in a cauldron ... Organizers are planning to hold the swimming events in a temporary pool at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, normally ...

AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was severely injured on assignment last October in Lebanon, will carry the Olympic Flame on Sunday, 21 July, in Vincennes, France, "to pay tribute to those who ...

The Olympic flame arrived in Marseille on Wednesday in front of 200,000 spectators, just weeks before the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. What economic impact will the competition ...

During the Opening Ceremony, he received the torch from French football great Zinedine Zidane and was in a select group of athletes carrying the torch down the River Seine toward the Olympic cauldron.

The AP team in Athens went above and beyond across formats to get exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes operation of lighting the Olympic flame, producing excellent work for both traditional and ...