Brazilian surfer Rico de Souza carried the Olympic torch while skiing off the coast of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. As the flame made its way through downtown, it was greeted by both protests and ...

(ATR) Ancient Olympia prepares for its biennial moment in the sun. The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at the site where the Games began ...

Florent Manaudou, a French swimming legend who won 2012 Olympic gold in the men’s 50m freestyle ... who won gold in the women’s 400m at the Rio Games. From Marseille, the torch proceeded on a 68-day ...

Nissan Brazil, one of the three presenting partners of the Rio 2016 Olympics Torch Relay, selected the six runners in an employee contest among the 1800 workers at the plant. While the plant’s ...

Rafael Nadal recently unveiled getting heavily emotional owing to the opportunity that he received during the Paris Olympics ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...

The torches – one from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the other from the ... valued at an estimated £5,000 to £8,000, and the Rio 2016 torch valued at around £1000 to £1500.

What's a torch bearer? Torch bearer Kim Magnus holds the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics torch during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games torch relay on November 4, 2017, in Busan ...

Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de Lamare Aquatic Park's warm-up ...

MARSEILLE: The Olympic torch relay began in Marseille on Thursday ... After the Covid-hit edition in Tokyo in 2021 and the corruption-tainted Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, the Paris Olympics ...