The 68-day Olympic torch route for the 2024 Paris Olympics began on Wednesday, May 8 in Marseille, France. Since then, the Olympic torch has crossed through 64 territories in France, ...

Former Olympic champions Rafer Johnson and Bob Hayes carried the torch through Dallas on June 13. Johnson, a civil rights icon, was the first African American to serve as the U.S. flag bearer at ...

Olympic Torch Lighting 2021: How Long Has the Olympic Flame Been Burning? The Olympic flame’s year-plus-long journey came to an end at the Opening Ceremony this evening in Tokyo ...

The torch for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has been unveiled -- one year before the opening ceremony. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. Log In.

Jin, left, he oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, takes the Olympic torch, July 14, 2024 in Paris.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) ...

TOKYO — The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics began its journey across Japan on Thursday, a 121-day odyssey that will conclude in the capital at the Summer Games’ July 23 opening ...

The Olympic torch has visited Texas three times since 1936. By Reid Laymance and Maren Kranking | July 24, 2024 6:00 a.m. The start of the 2024 Paris Olympics is at the end of this week, but its ...

An Olympic torch-bearer carries the flame ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 2nd, 2016 in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro . Mario Tama/Getty ...

Less than six weeks before the Olympic torch relay was due to begin in Fukushima, showcasing the region’s recovery from a catastrophic nuclear disaster a decade ago, the Japanese prefecture has ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay Grand Start torchbearers from the Japan's women's national soccer team lead the torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture on March 25, 2021.

Then, once the Olympic torch arrives at the host country, the 68-day long Olympic torch relay begins. For the 2024 Paris Olympics, the torch relay began in Marseille, roughly eight hours south of ...