There perhaps is not a more symbolic and equally visible item at the Olympic Games than the Olympic torch. Whether it was Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic cauldron during the 1996 Atlanta ...

(Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer) “The lighting of the Olympic torch is key to the world realizing this is happening, almost as important as the white smoke coming from the ...

Presenting the confirmed route, Thomas Tokas, president of the Olympic torch relay, revealed, "The responsibility of carrying out such a large and demanding undertaking is enormous, but we ...

“Our Trojan football stadium is a national landmark featuring the iconic 1932 and 1984 Olympic torch, and in 2028, it will once again make history as the first stadium to host events for three ...

But the plan to carry the Olympic torch through the Coliseum’s peristyle plaza while the traditional Olympic protocol took place in Inglewood ruffled feathers with leaders, who wanted to ensure ...

The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing early Tuesday for the fifth leg of a six-week global torch relay leading up to the Athens Games in August. A small lantern carrying the flame arrived at the ...