ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP ... will take part Tuesday in the flame-lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics. Details of the 30-minute performance are fine-tuned — and kept secret ...

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 ...

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 work for both traditional and ...

The rehearsal of the flame lighting was held before an audience of a couple of thousand visitors to Olympia; the ceremony Thursday will be witnessed by a handful of dignitaries including IOC ...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the flame lighting combined “a pilgrimage to our past in ancient Olympia, and an act of faith in our future.” “In these difficult times ...

The Olympic flame that wowed the world at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony in a floating cauldron is not real but in fact 100 per cent electric, organisers have revealed. The 'fake' flame is ...

According to tradition, the flame will be lit by the sun’s rays at a ceremony in Ancient Olympia. Then it will ... before arriving in Paris to light the cauldron and officially open the 2024 ...

The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at the site where the Games began nearly 3,000 years ago. Townspeople were already feeling a flicker of ...

An Olympic flame will be lit at a ceremony in ancient ... a parabolic polished mirror at the Temple of Hera to make sun rays light the Olympic torch. Russian women's futsal team 'didn't have ...

Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost ...

CCTV reporter Mao Xuzhi, now in Athens, brings us exclusive reports on the upcoming Olympic flame lighting ceremony. The Olympic Flame for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be lit in Ancient Olympia at ...

It looked as if Zinedine Zidane would light it, but he handed it off to Rafael Nadal ... allegory of the French motto of equality and fraternity. The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ...