Olympic Flame

The Olympic Flame lighting ceremony was held Thursday in Olympia, Greece, without spectators due to coronavirus concerns. The flame lighting ceremony, always held in the ancient Olympic site of Olympia, was attended by 100 accredited guests from the International Olympic...

The Lighting Ceremony for the Olympic Flame will be held this year without the presence of spectators, the Hellenic Olympic Committee announced on Monday. The Committee's statement said "The Hellenic Olympic Committee held a meeting today regarding the Lighting Ceremony...

Well-known Scottish actor Gerard Butler, who played the role of King Leonidas of Sparta in the movie "300," will return to Sparta, Greece for a series of events to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. Among the other...

All the details concerning the Olympic Flame and Torch Relay Ceremonies, which will take place in Greece in March, were presented on Monday at a special informational event held at the Hellenic Olympic Committee in Athens. It was disclosed there...

The Olympic torch was formally handed over from Greece to Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games organizers on Tuesday, in a simple ceremony. Under overcast skies at the Panathenaic Stadium that hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896, the torch was...

The Olympic Flame which is burning for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics continued its journey through northern and central Greece on Sunday, as the Greek leg of the torch relay nears its end. On Monday, the sacred light; which was...

The Olympic flame arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday, August 3, after its 20,000 km tour around the world. The torch relay was completed in the presence of a large crowd that lined up to watch the...

For several days now, a wooden trireme is decorating the grove of the Greek Navy Tradition in Faliro, Greece. The "Olympias" trireme is an exact copy of the ancient Athenian ship of the 5th century B.C., and on August...

Several minutes after 5 pm, the ceremony of the Greek leg of the Relay ended at the Panathinaic stadium in Athens, where the Hellenic Olympic Committee passed over the Flame to the Rio Games organizers. The ceremony took place in...

The Olympic Flame for the "RIO 2016" Summer Olympic Games arrived on Sunday evening at the city port of Alexandroupolis. A local children's choir sang anti-war songs such as John Lennon's "Imagine" as the Sacred Light was carried by...