Actress Mary Mina, in the role of an ancient Greek High Priestess, lit the torch using a backup flame instead of a concave mirror due to cloudy skies before the 2,500-year-old Temple of Hera, 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 ...

Stefanos Ntouskos, a Greek Olympic gold medal-winning rower, was the first runner to carry the torch on its journey to France. The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic is scheduled July 26 ...

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 ...

Olympic history goes back nearly 2,800 years, and a big part of that history is the Olympic torch. How bright is your Olympic torch knowledge? Take this quiz to find out What information do we ...

The 1988 Winter Olympic torch is considered one of the most rare due to how few, less than 150, were made. Of those few, one owned by Edmonton resident Richard Korbyl is even more rare as it is ...

The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional ... Lampposts were festooned with the Greek and Brazilian flags, plus occasional flags from previous Olympic hosts.

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption ...

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 ...

Steven Siewert Olympic Meats is Cassimatis’ way of carrying the family torch, giving back to the vibrant Greek community he grew up in, and teaching people about real Greek food. “You’ve got ...