The relay "was planned with immense care by ... In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from the site of the ancient games in Olympia ...

The last runner in the 1964 torch relay was Sakai Yoshinori, who was born in Hiroshima Prefecture on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb was dropped on the city. The flame for the upcoming ...

“Even if the Games are postponed until one or two years later, I want to join the torch relay as a runner,” said Izumita, who will retire later this month as principal of the town’s ...

A popular comedian who is a prospective Olympic torch relay runner backed out of the event, citing his disgust at remarks made by the head of the Games’ organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori ...

The route of the torch aims “to spread a message of peace and friendship between peoples”. The relay ends at the opening ceremony, with the final runner, or runners, lighting the cauldron with ...

The relay began on September 29 ... As described in the conference report, “The bronze torch [was] held aloft by the pale arm of Peggy Kokernot, marathon runner; the golden arm of Sylvia Ortiz, a ...

The Paralympic torch relay will last 11 days until the March 6 Opening Ceremony at the Verona Arena amphitheater. There will be 501 torchbearers. 2026 Winter Olympic torch relay (via Milan Cortina ...

She was the final runner in a three-month torch relay across Canada. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

The Olympic torch relay has been disrupted many times during ... Kayoko Takahashi can be seen shooting water from a small plastic gun at a runner carrying the torch. The 53-year-old was stopped ...

The torch relay event for the Games was held in the city on Sunday, where 107 torchbearers from various industries passed the torch in a relay spanning land, sea and air. Torchbearer Han Xiaoyan ...

The torch harks back to the ancient Olympics, when a sacred flame burned throughout the Games. The tradition was revived in 1936 for the Berlin Games. The first relay runner will be Greece's 2020 ...

SANYA, China, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The torch relay for the 12th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China took place on Sunday in Sanya, Hainan Province ...