The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...

The 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee on Feb. 25 announced a new set of guidelines for the Olympic torch relay, scheduled to start in a month, to reduce the risk of infection from the novel ...

The relay "was planned ... Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from the site ...

The Tokyo Games eight years later offered the region its first relay, and more than 800 torchbearers took part. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first to hold a torch relay in Asia, taking in 11 ...

The 101-day domestic torch relay begins on November 1 when the Olympic Flame - lit in Greece on October 24 - arrives in Incheon, Korea. (ATR) The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday ...

While Antoine Arnault of LVMH may insist that "financial benefits have never been a goal of this partnership," NBC’s ...

Figure skating prospect You Young has the honor of being the first torchbearer at home. She's best known for becoming the ...

A man has been detained on suspicion of planning an attack on the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said. He gave few details but praised police for ...

Every Olympic Games begins with the Olympic torch relay. The torch is lit in Greece and passed from one torchbearer to the next. In the end it reaches whichever city is hosting the games.

The first season of SPRINT, which premiered on Netflix in July, took viewers through the build-up to the Paris Olympics and ...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach confirmed yesterday that the torch relay for this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will include a stop at a refugee camp in Athens. Bach also ...