with the sun’s rays focused on the inside of a parabolic mirror to produce the Olympic flame and start the torch relay to the host city. Women dressed as priestesses are at the heart of the ...

(ATR) The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at Ancient Olympia.

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 ...

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris Games, but that’s not a fire in the cauldron. Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the ...

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 ...

Months before each Games the flame is lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, using the light of the sun and a parabolic mirror. It is transmitted via torches in a relay before ...

CCTV reporter Mao Xuzhi, now in Athens, brings us exclusive reports on the upcoming Olympic flame lighting ceremony ... on March 30 at the Panathenian Stadium in Athens. As the Olympic torch for the ...

Quantum on tour: This quantum laboratory at the University of Cambridge is currently home to the “QuanTour” light source, which is touring ... was marked by the ceremonial relay of the Olympic torch.

An Olympic flame will be lit at a ceremony in ancient ... polished mirror at the Temple of Hera to make sun rays light the Olympic torch. Russian women's futsal team 'didn't have to wear hijabs ...