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Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the cradle of ancient games
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece--Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled ... uses the sun to ignite a silver torch — after offering up a symbolic ...
Greek Reporter2d
The Ancient Greek Sanctuaries and Temples of Olympia
The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.
thenewsmarket9d
One Year to Go: IOC invites world’s best winter sports athletes to the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026
To mark one year until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, the International Olympic ...
myrepublica.nagariknetwork16d
Tokyo 2020 torch lit behind closed doors in ancient Olympia
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, GREECE, March 12: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay got under way on Thursday when the flame was lit by the rays of the sun in ancient Olympia in a scaled-down ceremony overshadowed ...
heraldsun.com.au5d
The ‘rare’ Melbourne Olympic torch missing from the Panathenaic Olympic museum
The whereabouts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch meant to be on display at an Athenian Olympics museum remains a mystery. And our resident Greek reporter is on the case. Subtle enough to the ...
heraldsun.com.au9d
1956 Melbourne Olympic torch only one missing from Panathenaic Stadium museum in Athens
The 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch is mysteriously the only one missing from an historic display at the birthplace of the Modern Olympics in Greece. The “rare” 1956 torch designed by Ralph ...
The Courier-Mail9d
The ‘rare’ Melbourne Olympic torch missing from the Panathenaic Olympic museum
Inside a display room at the Panathenaic Stadium — the marble arena which hosted the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896 — hangs a torch from every Summer Olympics since 1936, the year they were ...