The Olympic torch relay is the moment when the Games enter peoples’ homes, spreading the magic of winter sports across Italy, ...

The flame is 100% electric. Usually, the cauldron is lit while on the ground in the main Olympic stadium, and stays grounded, its flame burning brightly, for the entire length of the Games.

Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games organizers unveiled the routes for the Olympic and Paralympic torch relays, one year out from ...

November 2024 - The Olympic flame is set to embark on its “Greatest Journey”, across all 110 provinces of Italy, as ...

Milano Cortina 2026 announced the time and routes of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games torch relays on Tuesday as two different itineraries wil ...

Paris organizers announced the flame’s journey on Friday at City ... competitions will be based — and the Marseille stadium hosting Olympic soccer games. After that it will be carried overland ...

April 16 and will then be handed over to the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games at the Panathinaikó Stadium on Tuesday, April 26. The flame is due to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday.

Moments after the flame was extinguished in the Olympic Stadium a volley of multi-colored fireworks lit up the night sky about the Olympic Stadium where athletes were already heading for the exits.

22:54 Vladislav Tretyak and Irina Rodnina light the Olympic flame at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi. (C) ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov 22:51 Gymnast Alina Kabayeva carries the Olympic flame.

lit the Olympic Flame at the Anji-Arena stadium in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala on Monday as the North Caucasus Republic was welcoming the Sochi Olympic Games torch relay race on its soil.