The overseas itinerary starts Feb. 25 in Athens, Greece, to light the torch from the Olympic cauldron. The next day, the runners will fly to Rome, where Pope Francis will bless the flame.

The 1956 Melbourne Olympic ... The torch reached the state border at Albury on November 21 and passed through Shepparton, Bendigo and Geelong en route to the MCG. The Melbourne cauldron was ...

The whereabouts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch meant to be on display at an Athenian Olympics museum remains a mystery. And our resident Greek reporter is on the case. Subtle enough to the ...

HARBIN, Feb 4, (Xinhua): China's Olympic champions, including Sheng Lihao, Wu Dajing, and Sui Wenjing, participated in the torch relay for the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin. They praised the ...

Inside a display room at the Panathenaic Stadium — the marble arena which hosted the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896 — hangs a torch from every Summer Olympics since 1936, the year they were ...

The Asian Winter Games got under way in Harbin on Monday with Olympic champions taking part in the torch relay outside, and the ice hockey competition getting the action started indoors.

"It is a huge honour," he said of carrying the torch. "I bring peace." He lit the cauldron during the torch ... RFI's coverage of the Paris Olympics 2024 "I fought for France to be liberated ...

The cauldron balloon is the third design that Lehanneur created for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, following the torch and the relay cauldron. Lehanneur's previous works include the ...