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 ...

When Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner performed the traditional role of transferring the torch-based flame to the Olympic cauldron there were gasps of delight and applause. A circle of fire ...

The use of a 'fake flame' in the cauldron comes after the torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia in a traditional ceremony. Months before each games, the flame is lit at ...

But for my generation the Olympic flame represented a strong hope for peace and a determination that we won't ever go to war again." The last runner in the 1964 torch relay was Sakai Yoshinori ...

You bet! But most of the time, the torch goes out or just won’t light. That’s why Olympic planners always keep a secret weapon on hand — backup flames! The initial flame is lit in Olympia ...

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 ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...

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 ...

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

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

Over 1,000 Special Olympic athletes are in the Philadelphia area this weekend to compete at the Special Olympics Pennsylvania ...

Exactly one month since the start of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay’s journey across Russia, a Soyuz TMA-11M was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch ...