On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...

With the flame returning to the modern Olympics for the first time at Amsterdam 1928, the idea of a torch and torch relay was first introduced at Berlin 1936. Each Olympics, the flame is lit in a ...

Greeks would hold relay races, passing a torch between athletes and light a cauldron during their games as a symbol of purity, reason and peace. • The flame was reintroduced to the Olympics at ...

Additionally, the torch crossed the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans as part of the “Oceans Relay,” reaching six overseas French territories: Guyana, Guadeloupe, New Caledonia, Martinique, French ...

The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...

Ramil Salihova, atorchbearer who carried the flame during the final stage of the 1980 Olympic torch relay, will take part in the relay route through Ufa.Salihova told Sochi 2014 organizers ...

The torch relay kicked off Thursday morning in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. "I hope the Olympic flame of the ...

the Olympic torch features a blue-green hue while the Paralympic version is bronze colored. "The design of the torch is intended to enhance the flame itself, the true essence of the torch relay ...

ATHENS--Greece's Olympic Committee said it had cancelled the remainder of the Olympic Torch relay through the country on Friday to avoid attracting crowds that could raise the risk of coronavirus ...

What happens when a beloved Chinese giant panda encounters the Olympic torch relay? Yuan Zi, a giant panda living in France, perhaps says, “I don’t quite understand the torch relay.

The April 13 relay marks 20 days since the torch relay began on March 25 in Fukushima Prefecture. The opening of the Tokyo Olympics will be 100 days away on April 14. The relay is taking place as ...