Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight ... French football hero Zidane in a unifying twist to the flame's path to Paris.

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 prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as ...

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 prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed ...

will take part Tuesday in the flame-lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics. Details of the 30-minute performance are fine-tuned — and kept secret — right up until a public rehearsal Monday.

Watch as the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to an end with the lighting of the Olympic flame and Celine Dion's performance on the Eiffel Tower. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport.

Years of source building and weeks of planning came to a head at the precise moment when the sun’s rays reflected on a cauldron failed to light the Olympic flame that in three months will open the ...

Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, whose historic bells were silenced following 2019’s devastating fire, will soon echo again with fresh chimes.

The bells of Notre Dame tolled in Paris on Friday for the first time since the 2019 fire that threatened to destroy the Parisian landmark.

The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games became a historic ... putting the country in a positive light despite some problems at the start of the Games. Some 24.5 million viewers (more than ...

But the City of Angeles showed that it, too, has aces up its sleeves, like the City of Light ... screens collecting the Olympic flame from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. To spectators' loud ...

Rafael Nadal, the 38-year-old tennis great from Spain, will probably get on to the red clay of Roland Garros for the last time in his illustrious career, at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He has won a ...

The bells of Notre Dame tolled in Paris on Friday for the first time since the 2019 fire that threatened to destroy the ...