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The big picture: The flame is now making its way to Athens during an 11-day relay ... the torch during the flame lighting ceremony. Photo: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images Spectators view the Olympics ...
The 2018 PyeongChang Olympics has reached an important milestone ― it is only 100 days away. And the countdown has started with a torch relay that began following the arrival of the Olympic ...
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 ...
AFP PHOTO/Samantha SIN (Photo credit should read SAMANTHA SIN/AFP/Getty Images) Tibet Unrest Will Not Change Route of Torch Relay Plans to take the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay into Tibet and to ...
The purpose of the production of the television signal for the 29th Summer Olympic Games Torch Relay is to spread around the essential spirit of the Olympics’ “sports serving for the harmonious ...
Former NBA star and Chinese basketball icon Yao Ming helped kick off the torch relay on Wednesday. Chan joined Chinese Olympic medalists on Thursday as the torch headed up the Badaling Great Wall, the ...
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 ...
It is one of the 200 torches made for the English leg of the relay. The torch also bears the markings for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. This is the prototype of the final design and was used by ...
The Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo Games finally started, following a closed-door ceremony that reflected precautions against a health crisis that continues to plague the planet. The torch left ...