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.

Dutch architect Jan Wils was the man who revived the idea of the flame, which harks back to the sacred fire that burned during the ancient Olympic games in Athens. Wils designed the stadium for the ...

The Olympic flame will be handed over to Paris 2024 organisers in a ceremony at the all-marble Panathenaic Stadium, site of the first modern Olympic Games of 1896, on April 26. Nana Mouskouri ...

Further on, in the morning, a wonderful woman - Leni Riefenstahl - had brought her film crew and, at the starting line of the ancient stadium, staged the lighting of the Olympic flame herself. Then, ...

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 ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The Olympic Games may have revived the fantasy of the 'most beautiful city in the world,' but the reality of ...

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.

The Olympic Flame for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be lit in Ancient Olympia at 12 o´clock at noon on March 24 and will be handed over to the Beijing Organizing Committee at 3 p.m. on March 30 at ...

The ceremony then saw the stadium transformed into the ... when an engineering failure prevented the flame from climbing towards the Olympic Cauldron. Later on in the games, Freeman went on ...

The AP team in Athens went above and beyond across formats to get exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes operation of lighting the Olympic flame, producing excellent work for both traditional and ...