Roger Lebranchu who survived almost two years in Nazi concentration camps and was the oldest person to carry the Olympic ...

On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics will be lit at ... An actress playing an ancient Greek priestess holds a silver torch containing highly combustible materials over a ...

Every Olympic Games begins with the Olympic torch relay. The torch is lit in Greece and passed from one torchbearer to the next. In the end it reaches whichever city is hosting the games.

The torch is one of the most recognisable symbols of the Olympic Games - but do you know what it represents. From the moment it is lit in the Greek city of the Olympia to the moment it lights up ...

Greek actress Mary Mina will play the role of the High Priestess that will use a parabolic polished mirror at the Temple of Hera to make sun rays light the Olympic torch. "We are currently ...

Greece handed over the Olympic flame to the organizers of the ... It then travelled through Greece in a torch relay and will be transported from the Greek port of Piraeus to the southern French ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...

On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games ... a lone runner bearing a torch carried from the site of the ancient games in Olympia, Greece into the stadium.

The Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo Games finally started ... The flame arrived in Japan from Greece in March 2020. It has been on display in 14 prefectures, including Hokkaido, since the ...