The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee on March 23 decided to cancel the relay by the Olympic torch runners that was set to start March 26, according to government and other officials. The ...

One of the first runners in the Tokyo Olympics torch relay has dropped out of the event scheduled for Thursday, the Games organizing committee said on Wednesday. Homare Sawa, captain of Japan’s ...

But for my generation the Olympic flame represented a strong hope for peace and a determination that we won't ever go to war again." The last runner in the 1964 torch relay was Sakai Yoshinori ...

On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...

There will be 10,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame as it passes through some 60 French departments ahead of the 2024 Games, After the flame is lit in the traditional ceremony in Olympia ...

Olympics organizers have decided that Fukushima ... three days through towns across the prefecture. Roy hopes to be a torch runner, celebrating with the local people. He calls the torch a symbol ...

as a tribute to the ancient Olympic games that set the stage for the modern events. This year's torch was lit in April. The torch is then carried, both by runners and other forms of transportation ...

The torch is one of the most recognisable symbols of the Olympic Games - but do you know what it represents. From the moment it is lit in the Greek city of the Olympia to the moment it lights up ...

Olympic history goes back nearly 2,800 years, and a big part of that history is the Olympic torch. How bright is your Olympic torch knowledge? Take this quiz to find out What information do we ...

The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...

The replica of the Olympic torch is touring 92 schools across Wolverhampton ahead of the WolvOlympics A replica of the Olympic torch is touring 92 schools across Wolverhampton ahead of a local ...