The Olympic flame that wowed the world at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony in a floating cauldron is not real but in fact 100 per cent electric, organisers have revealed. The 'fake' flame is ...

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

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight ... French football hero Zidane in a unifying twist to the flame's path to Paris.

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.

Less than three months before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic flame was ignited in the traditional ceremony that takes place at the ruins of ancient Olympia. The lighting of ...

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 ...

was shown on the giant screens collecting the Olympic flame from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. To spectators' loud chants of "Léon, Léon," Marchand then reappeared at the end of the show ...

Mohammed Zaman, pictured with volunteer Lucille who he met in Paris, said it was a "big honour" to carry the torch When Mohammed Zaman received a letter earlier this year informing him he had been ...

Years of source building and weeks of planning came to a head at the precise moment when the sun’s rays reflected on a cauldron failed to light the Olympic flame that in three months will open the ...

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Preparations to host the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are underway and the city welcomed officials from Paris this week to find ...