The Olympic symbol is made up of five interlinking rings – one blue ... The route of the torch aims “to spread a message of peace and friendship between peoples”. The relay ends at the ...

The ring of flames was actually created ... Ahead of the ceremony every four years, the torch is first lit in Olympia, the founding site of the Olympics. It then travels through Greece to Athens ...

The Olympic torch spirals upward to resemble two overlapping ... As a service to our readers, Around the Rings will provide verbatim texts of selected press releases issued by Olympic-related ...

The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

The torch for the Beijing Olympics. (ATR) Recruitment is now underway in Beijing for what will be a record number of torchbearers for an Olympic torch relay. Organizers of the 2008 relay announced ...

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 ...

What's a torch bearer? Torch bearer Kim Magnus holds the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics torch during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games torch relay on November 4, 2017, in Busan ...

The Spanish tennis player didn't know he was going to be a torch bearer at the Opening Ceremony until about 10 minutes before. Rafael Nadal holds the Olympic torch during the Opening Ceremony for ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...