Two of Bermuda’s young sports officials, Syriah Lottimore and Brandon Sousa, have just returned from a two-week trip of a ...

Greece's top alpine skier will have the honour of initially carrying the flame in the 2026 Winter Olympics Lighting Ceremony. The decision was ...

As noted by the Olympics website, the Olympic torch was brought over to France from Greece by sea and transported on the Belem, a 19th-century French three-masted ship.

The Olympic torch relay traces its inspiration to the ancient Greeks. The Greeks participated in torch races to honor their gods and kept “perpetual fires” burning at temples, lit using the ...

Adolf Hitler during the Berlin Summer Olympics in 1936. Erich Andres—United Archives/Getty Images Hitler was a devout reader of Greek mythology and drawn to the torch as a symbol of ancient Greece.

The Olympic torch, lit in ancient Olympia, Greece on April 16, has arrived in Marseille, France, after a 12-day journey across the Mediterranean. In the old part of Marseille, 150,000 people ...

Speeches ensue. On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony.

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies frustrated Tuesday’s efforts to produce the flame in the ...

And even if ancient Olympia can, in theory at least, be efficiently guarded, the route of the torch relay through Greece is too long to be protest-proof.The 2008 incidents at Olympia and abroad ...

It will then be carried through Greece for more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) before being handed over to French organizers at the Athens venue used for the first modern Olympics in 1896.