Olympic Flame

Despite the rainy weather, thousands of Athens' residents gathered at Panathenaiko Stadium on May 18 to celebrate the  handing over of the Olympic flame to London. The flame, symbolizing purity because it comes directly from the sun, has been carried...

Internationally recognized British soccer player David Beckham will take part in the handover ceremony of the Olympic Flame to be held on May 17 at the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens. According to the official announcement published on the London 2012...

Northern Greece embraced the Olympic Flame Sunday that burns for the 2012 London Games on the fourth day of the Torch Relay that will continue Monday towards the Greek-Turkish borders. Starting from the city of Ioannina in the western part...

The Venetian port of Chania greeted the Olympic Flame. The flame relay will travel to London on July 27, heralding the 2012 Olympic Games. But people participating in the Olympic flame relay, lit in ancient Olympia, still have many stations...

The Olympic flame for this summer's London Games will be lit Thursday in Ancient Olympia, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Tuesday. The Flame will be lit "with every solemnity, according to the traditional way," the HOC said in...

For the first time in Olympic Games history, the Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony will be broadcast live via the Internet. Until now, international state broadcasting companies showed the event. The ceremony, which defines the opening of the Olympic Games, will be...

Greece has lined up enough sponsors to fully fund its leg of the Olympic torch relay in May despite the country's financial crisis. The relay will go through 40 towns and cities on a 1,800-mile journey before the flame is...

The Olympic Flame will be lit by the sun's rays on the morning of May 10th in Greece at the start of its journey to the London 2012 Games, Lord Coe has announced. An hour-long lighting ceremony amid the historic...