The Olympic flame arrived in France aboard a 19th century tall ship to kick off a 7,500-mile journey to the Paris Summer ...
The Olympic flame has been lit in Olympia, Greece, kicking off the torch relay for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ahead of each Summer Olympics, the torch is lit in the ancient site where the games were ...
With July’s 2024 Olympic Games being held in France, the famous flaming torch must make the journey between the two European ...
It was the first leg of an 11-week journey across the country for the torch, which will be carried by about 10,000 bearers as ...
From the Acropolis, Greece's most emblematic monument, the Olympic flame sends its timeless messages of peace and truce to the entire planet. The altar was lit by Olympic athlete Periklis ...
Torchbearers are to carry the Olympic flame through the streets of France’ s southern port city of Marseille, one day after ...
Speeches ensue. On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony.
the flame will be passed to the Paris Olympic organizers. It will then embark to the French port city of Marseille on the 120-year-old, three-masted Belem, a historic vessel that began life as a ...
Every four years, before the Olympic Games, a flame is ignited before it travels across the globe to the hosting country. Given that the games are taking place in Paris this year, the flame doesn ...
The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics is to be lit Tuesday in ancient Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Games, for an epic torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to the South Pacific.
Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic Games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame-lighting ceremony in southern Greece at ancient Olympia ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- No one ...
The ritual will see actresses in the role of ancient priestesses coaxing the Olympic flame into life with the help of a parabolic polished mirror in Olympia, southwestern Greece, where the Games ...