Tokyo doused its Olympic flame in a ceremony on Sunday that echoed the restraint of a Games that played out without spectators and were defined and transformed by the global pandemic, dazzling ...

The flame touches down Friday aboard a white aircraft painted with the inscription “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay” along its side, and “Hope Lights Our Way” stenciled near the tail section.

The Olympic baton was passed to France who will host the next Olympiad in Paris in 2024. Tokyo 2020 was held successfully despite a one-year delay and the pandemic still gripping the host city.

took to the stage and received the lit-up flame from the first torchbearer, Greek rower Stefanos Ntouskos, who secured the ...

She says she had one serious concern before leaving Tokyo. Kuno Akiko was an interpreter for the Japanese mission to carry the Olympic flame through Asia. The route passed through Southeast Asia ...

The Olympic flame will go on display at a Tokyo museum in next month. The organisers said the flame, which arrived in Japan for the nationwide relay in March, will be available for public viewing ...

During that time, organizers faced the unprecedented task of keeping the flame lit for an entire year. It spent much of that time at a Tokyo Fire Department facility for safekeeping before going on ...

The Olympic flame arrived in France at Marseille on Wednesday ... After the Covid-hit edition in Tokyo in 2021 and the corruption-tainted Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, the Paris Olympics are ...

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

After a cuddly embrace at the Tokyo Olympics set tongues wagging, Matildas star Sam Kerr has gone public with her new flame. Boomers captain Patty Mills has revealed the moment he realised adequacy ...

A French paralympic athlete extinguishes the lantern after passing the Olympic flame on to the U.S. during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paralympics under the rain, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024 ...