Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the enormous cauldron comprises 40 LED spotlights and 200 misting nozzles and is tethered to what ...

Overflowing with national pride, the Greek media, seconded by the country’s grandiloquent authorities, don’t miss the opportunity to present this veritable re-enactment of a Nazi ceremony, namely the ...

The logo for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been unveiled ... to have taken inspiration from the logo of popular dating app Tinder. One of the most common jokes about the new logo was that ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic ... twist to the flame's path to Paris. The man they call Zizou was a tremendous football player for Spanish ...

The AP team in Athens went above and beyond across formats to get exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes operation of lighting the Olympic flame, producing excellent ... in text and video form that ...

The mayor of London will light a "legacy flame" on 22 July to mark the 10th anniversary of the Olympic Games ... Several sporting venues have become popular facilities, such as the Copper Box ...

The Paris Games are over, the Olympic flame that hung suspended in a cauldron ... Sports like surfing, climbing and skateboarding have proven popular additions to the Olympics in recent years ...

Before most of the competition gets underway in Paris, the Olympics began with the typical ... They help us to know which ...

But perhaps the most poignant moment was the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron. Nineteen-year-old Yoshinori Sakai mounted the 163 steps to the cauldron and ignited the flame at three minutes and ...

The ceremony features speeches, the host country's national anthem, and the lighting of the Olympic flame, among several ... the entire ceremony and the most popular Olympic events on NBC.

The flame will be officially handed over to ... the Lionesses failed to secure qualification. Tickets for the most popular Olympic events, including swimming and gymnastics, are sold out with ...