The Olympic torch is a symbol of peace and history ... With the flame returning to the modern Olympics for the first time at Amsterdam 1928, the idea of a torch and torch relay was first introduced at ...

Moreover, the flame is a symbol of continuity and connection ... of these values through time and space. The modern tradition of the Olympic torch began with the Berlin 1936 Games.

This week Greek guerrillas had cut the relay route of the Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the ...

A Tanzanite symbol has been placed on the Tanzanite Bridge in Dar es Salaam replacing the Uhuru Torch which adorned one of the City’s modern day landmarks. The bridge was closed for closed on ...

While simply lighting the torch in Paris would be easier, the “pageantry at Olympia” provides an “ineluctable link between the modern event and the ancient Greek original on which it was ...

Adolf Hitler during the Berlin Summer Olympics in 1936.Erich Andres—United Archives/Getty Images Hitler was a devout reader of Greek mythology and drawn to the torch as a symbol of ancient Greece.