with the sun’s rays focused on the inside of a parabolic mirror to produce the Olympic flame and start the torch relay to the host city. Women dressed as priestesses are at the heart of the ...

The lighting ceremony connects the ... and the heat generated sets the fuel inside the torch alight, producing the famous flame. The Olympic flame has been lit using this technique since 1936!

In recollection of the origins of the Olympic Games ... With the lighting of the cauldron by the last relay runner the flame is transferred from the torch to the place where it will continue ...

(ATR) The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at Ancient Olympia.

(ATR) The flame for the London Olympics is lit ... The practice session ended when Menegaki used a torch to light the London Olympic torch held by Spyros Gianniotis, open water swim champion ...

The AP team in Athens went above and beyond across formats to get exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes operation of lighting the Olympic flame, producing excellent work for both traditional and ...

Overflowing with national pride, the Greek media, seconded by the country’s grandiloquent authorities, don’t miss the opportunity to present this veritable re-enactment of a Nazi ceremony, namely the ...

Normally, the foremost of a group of priestesses in long, pleated dresses dips the fuel-filled torch ... International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the flame lighting combined ...

Months before each Games the flame is lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, using the light of the sun and a parabolic mirror. It is transmitted via torches in a relay before ...

CCTV reporter Mao Xuzhi, now in Athens, brings us exclusive reports on the upcoming Olympic flame lighting ceremony ... on March 30 at the Panathenian Stadium in Athens. As the Olympic torch for the ...

This is the last torch ceremony of his presidency, as Rogge steps down next year after 12 years in charge. “The energy that passes from the sun to the Olympic flame will light a torch that will ...

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