He is a team leader for the Law Enforcement Torch Run, which will lead up to the 2025 Special Olympics Winter World Games March 8-15 in Turin, Italy. The Algonquin chief is among 86 police ...

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first to hold a torch relay in Asia, taking in 11 cities. Passing through war-torn Asia Kuno Akiko was an interpreter for the Japanese team that orchestrated the ...

The torch also bears the markings for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. This is the prototype of the final design and was used by Paines Fireworks to come up with a safe, portable and smokeless fuel ...

Every Olympic Games begins with the Olympic torch relay. The torch is lit in Greece and passed from one torchbearer to the next. In the end it reaches whichever city is hosting the games.

The Olympic torch relay is usually just a sideshow for the real thing; the prelude, the buildup, the warm-up act that could be skipped. Not this time. All eyes will be on the torch relay when it ...

Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...

The torch also bears the markings for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. This is the prototype of the final design and was used by Paines Fireworks to come up with a safe, portable and smokeless fuel ...

He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

The torch made its way through northwest Beijing on Friday morning, as torchbearers trekked through cold conditions past the Summer Palace and the former imperial gardens. Among the torchbearers was ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left lost for words when they found out the value of their Olympic torch. A recent episode of the BBC show saw the experts gather at Pollark Park in Glasgow to ...

BEIJING--The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Olympics, shortened considerably because of concerns about the coronavirus, started Wednesday with an 80-year-old former speedskater carrying the ...