The Olympic flame for the summer games was lit on Tuesday during a ceremony in Ancient Olympia, Greece. The big picture: The flame is now making its way to Athens during an 11-day relay, after ...

ATHENS (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Paris Olympics has been formally handed over to French organizers at a ceremony in Greece. Friday’s ceremony was held in the all-marble ...

The 2018 PyeongChang Olympics has reached an important milestone ― it is only 100 days away. And the countdown has started with a torch relay that began following the arrival of the Olympic ...

Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...

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 ...

Fuel pack in the torch developed by Waeco Ltd of Salisbury, now part of Pains Wessex famous for their fireworks.The torch, which bears the official markings of the 1948 games, was used in the ...

What's a torch bearer? Torch bearer Kim Magnus holds the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics torch during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games torch relay on November 4, 2017, in Busan, South Korea.