This Olympic Torch was carried by Trowbridge resident, Major Rex Chapman, through the town of Sherborne in 1948, as it made its way to the London Olympics in 1948. Made after the war from aluminium.

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 ...

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He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

Here are key facts about the opening ceremony for the ... Manning will also be part of the hosting lineup. The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.

What happens when a beloved Chinese giant panda encounters the Olympic torch relay? Yuan Zi, a giant panda living in France, perhaps says, “I don’t quite understand the torch relay.

The 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee on Feb. 25 announced a new set of guidelines for the Olympic torch relay, scheduled to start in a month, to reduce the risk of infection from the novel ...

“The Olympic torch relay is the moment when the Games enter peoples’ homes, spreading the magic of winter sports across Italy,” Milan-Cortina CEO Andrea Varnier said. “This is very ...

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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum is celebrating the addition of some new hardware to its collection. The 2024 Paris Games torch, as well as gold ...