The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...

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 ...

The relay "was planned ... Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from the site ...

The Tokyo Games eight years later offered the region its first relay, and more than 800 torchbearers took part. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first to hold a torch relay in Asia, taking in 11 ...

While Antoine Arnault of LVMH may insist that "financial benefits have never been a goal of this partnership," NBC’s ...

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 ...

Figure skating prospect You Young has the honor of being the first torchbearer at home. She's best known for becoming the ...

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.

As the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Torch Relay kicks off in Moscow today, the route is marked by major human rights abuses. As the torch begins its journey, Human Rights Watch is launching a new ...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach confirmed yesterday that the torch relay for this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will include a stop at a refugee camp in Athens. Bach also ...