The lighting of the Olympic cauldron symbolizes the opening of the Olympic Games. That makes it a pretty big deal to Olympic fans and organizers alike. Each ceremony puts its own spin on the ...

PARIS (AP) — The night the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron first flew over Paris, its designer Mathieu Lehanneur held his breath: Nothing could go wrong. The balloon, lit by the Olympic torch ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight the Mathieu Lehanneur-designed boiler in Paris on Friday. It looked as if ...

A tightrope walker appears named Lyell Grunberg, the guide tells me he is a slackline artist, but I am not having that. He ...

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Teen environmental advocates held a protest raising awareness for Great Salt Lake, saying a drying lake could impact the 2034 ...

Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, Sakai bounded up a flight of 179 steps, thrust it into a cauldron of oil. Flames leapt up, and halfway around the world, in Manhattan and Mexico City ...

The president-elect will have a unique opportunity to showcase America to the world as the U.S. hosts major international ...

The opening ceremony of the meet, touted as one modelled on the Olympics this time ... then lit the games cauldron. The cultural programme, which was inaugurated by actor Mammootty, saw over ...

Greek actor playing the role of the High Priestess Mary Mina (2R) stands in front of the Olympic ... [+] Cauldron with a torch as Priestesses perform a dance during the handover ceremony of the ...

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