When Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner performed the traditional role of transferring the torch-based flame to the Olympic cauldron there were gasps of delight and applause. A circle of fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the Ancient Olympics in deference to "the gods." A symbolic fire was introduced in 1928 ...

Watch as the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to an end with the lighting of the Olympic flame and Celine Dion's performance on the Eiffel Tower. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport.

Less than three months before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic flame was ignited in the traditional ceremony that takes place at the ruins of ancient Olympia. The lighting of ...

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 ...

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

Two months after the flame went out on the glittering Paris Olympics and Paralympics, the French capital is in the grip of a ...

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

One man's tradition of racing the Athens Marathon could be up in flames after his costume was stolen just days before ...