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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
But one of them was definitely not an Olympic torch. I wonder if you can tell us ... We know it was made, obviously, 1988, travelled from Olympia in Greece where the procession started and then ...
The whereabouts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch meant to be on display at an Athenian Olympics museum remains a mystery. And our resident Greek reporter is on the case. Subtle enough to the ...