A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting event. Speeches ensue. On Tuesday ...

ATHENS, March 12 (Reuters) - Next month's Paris 2024 Olympics flame lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia will showcase a new high priestess, redesigned costumes and fresh music as Greece looks to ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting event.

Saturday, July 28, 1984, date of the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, was a huge day in the history of sports. It transcended athletics. In the next day’s Los Angeles Times, under a ...

A video of fireworks and pyrotechnics inside what appears to be a church is being shared on social media, with the claims that it shows the lighting of the Olympic torch in Paris. A Facebook user ...

Tibetan and Hong Kong human-rights activists staged a series of protests around the torch-lighting ceremony in Greece in the run-up to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Greek authorities detained nine ...

The lighting of the Olympic Flame, for the first time, featured a snowflake. It also featured a blunt political message. China promised an unconventional cauldron lighting to officially begin the 2022 ...