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.

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 ...

Friday’s ceremony was held in the all-marble Panathenaic stadium in Athens where the first modern Games were held in 1896. The flame will depart for the southern French port city of Marseille on ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In total, 31 torchbearers carried the flame around the stadium, including Olympic wrestler Alan Khugaev. Local Ossetian beer, dress, song, and dance was on display during the relay. The 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.