ATHENS (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Paris Olympics has been formally handed over to French organizers at a ceremony in Greece. Friday’s ceremony was held in the all-marble ...

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris Games, but that’s not a fire in the cauldron. Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece--Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies ...

The night the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron first ... Like Aline Le Quere, a French businesswoman from Paris, who thinks the flame is very original. "It’s super modern and so really ...

France — The Olympic flame is going for a sail. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic ... boiler in Paris on Friday. It looked as if Zinedine Zidane would light it, but he handed it off to Rafael ...

Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The Olympic flame will stay grounded near the Louvre Museum on Tuesday following a thunderstorm alert on Paris, organisers told Reuters. The cauldron carrying the flame is ...

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In recognition of his volunteering, he was invited to be a torchbearer at the Paris Olympics, and should have carried the Olympic flame in the ... Tower and were taking photos with Mohammed ...