the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight ... French football hero Zidane in a unifying twist to the flame's path to Paris.

will take part Tuesday in the flame-lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics. Details of the 30-minute performance are fine-tuned — and kept secret — right up until a public rehearsal Monday.

Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Every Olympics has its defining sporting moment ... and Canadian teen sensation Summer McIntosh are set to light up the Paris night in a race for gold that may produce a swim ...

The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games became a historic ... putting the country in a positive light despite some problems at the start of the Games. Some 24.5 million viewers (more than ...

Their arrival ahead of Notre Dame's reopening on Dec. 8 marks a milestone in the painstaking restoration and modernization of ...

Cauldron with a torch as Priestesses perform a dance during the handover ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games at Panathinean stadium in Athens ...

Rafael Nadal, the 38-year-old tennis great from Spain, will probably get on to the red clay of Roland Garros for the last time in his illustrious career, at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He has won a ...

But the City of Angeles showed that it, too, has aces up its sleeves, like the City of Light ... screens collecting the Olympic flame from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. To spectators' loud ...

PARIS (AP) — Seven people have been charged in connection with cyberbullying targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic mastermind behind the Paris Olympics ... up the City of Light as a vibrant ...