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 ...

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 ...

Greece handed over the Olympic flame ... was lit on April 16 at the ancient site of Olympia on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. It then travelled through Greece in a torch relay and will be ...

Twenty-four athletes would wind up with a temporary hold on the torch, with the final job going to Riner and Perec ... "conclude" the allegory of the French motto of equality and fraternity. The idea ...

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 ...

The presentation of the 12,000-kilometre route took place exactly a year before the flame will be lit in Ancient Olympia, Greece. "The Olympic torch relay is the moment when the Games enter ...

(ATR) Ancient Olympia prepares for its biennial moment in the sun. The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday ... Lampposts were festooned with the Greek and Brazilian flags, plus occasional ...

The history of the Olympic torch relay began in 1936. The flame ignited in Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, was transported to Nazi Germany and frenzied spectators lined the route.