In Ancient Olympia, home of the ancient Olympics for more than 1,000 years, a flame was thought to burn perpetually on a ...

Olympia [Greece], April 16 (ANI): In a traditional ceremony organised by the Hellenic Olympic Committee, the governing body ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece--Even without the help of Apollo, 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 ...

running, holding it aloft. The crowd erupts in applause and bravos. In an instant, he rounds the Cronion ring road and is off, running with the sacred flame of Olympia to transmit the Olympic light - ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), September 29 (Itar-Tass) -The ceremony of lighting the flame of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi started in Ancient Olympia in the west of the Greek Peloponnese ...

More than 600 torchbearers carried the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, en route to Paris, France—the site of the 2024 Olympic Games, which commenced when the flame lit the Olympic cauldron at the ...

In recollection of the origins of the Olympic Games, the flame is lit in Olympia, Greece, some months before the opening of the Games. It is then carried by relay from Olympia to the host city of ...

(ATR) - The home of the ancient Olympic Games plays host to as many as ten thousand spectators today for the ceremony lighting the Olympic flame for the 2004 Games. International Olympic Committee ...

Greek actress Mary Mina, playing the role of a high priestess, lit the flame in a dramatic ceremony in ancient Olympia, Greece, where the first Olympic games were held in 776 BC. The flame was ...

(ATR) Ancient Olympia prepares for its biennial moment in the sun. The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at the site where the Games began ...

Located some 290 kilometers (180 miles) southwest of Athens, Ancient Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympic Games and the site where the Olympic flame lighting ceremony is held every two years.