The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

The ceremony will be broadcast on TV and streamed ... Manning will also be part of the hosting lineup. The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.

Regardless of who is selected to light the Olympic cauldron, the torch figures to be carried by some of the nation's most prominent athletes during the opening ceremony, with the entire journey ...

Rap star Snoop Dogg delivered the Olympic torch to the State de France stadium Friday morning in Paris, just hours before the 2024 Games’ opening ceremony.

On March 18, the ancient Greek valley of Olympia once again became the focus of global attention. The 144th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was grandly inaugurated in an event ...

The opening ceremony for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was ... have decided that Fukushima will play host to the start of the Olympic torch relay next March. The torch will be carried for three days ...

The Olympic flame’s journey wouldn’t have been complete without a few spots in France’s sports meccas, including the Simonne-Mathieu court at Roland-Garros and Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium. The torch ...

The Spanish tennis player didn't know he was going to be a torch bearer at the Opening Ceremony until about 10 minutes before. Rafael Nadal holds the Olympic torch during the Opening Ceremony for ...

Olympic history goes back nearly 2,800 years, and a big part of that history is the Olympic torch. How bright is your Olympic torch knowledge? Take this quiz to find out What information do we ...

The former Spanish tennis player last week received a historic gift from the International Olympic Committee: the torch with ...

NARA--Todaiji temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will partially ease COVID-19 restrictions and reopen the Shunie torch-bearing ceremony to the public during the main event from March 1 to 14.

Complete with an opening ceremony and torch lighting, the OneBerkeley United Games brought together students from around ...