lugged up Mount Everest and towed underwater — the flame kindles a cauldron that burns in the host Olympic stadium until the end of the games. Then it's used for the Paralympics. An actor ...

German athlete Fritz Schilgen runs past German army soldiers with the Olympic torch on his way to lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics at the ...

The Olympic torch is a symbol of peace and history ... A flare system, burning at 2,000°C, maintained the flame and made it visible underwater. The torch had already been on a journey, as in May 2000, ...

There perhaps is not a more symbolic and equally visible item at the Olympic Games than the Olympic torch. Every four years as the Olympics commence, this shining and uniquely designed piece of ...

You've seen it all over your socials by now: rapper (and BFF to Martha Stewart) Snoop Dogg carrying the Olympic torch through Parisian suburbs ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony ...

There perhaps is not a more symbolic and equally visible item at the Olympic Games than the Olympic torch. Whether it was Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic cauldron during the 1996 Atlanta ...