Torch Relay

Greece is preparing for the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony and the Olympic torch relay that will officially kick off the 2024 Paris Olympic Games countdown. The Olympic Flame-lighting ceremony will take place on April 16, with High Priestess Mary Mina using...

Thousands of people gathered in Sparta, southern Greece on Friday morning to see Hollywood star Gerard Butler marching along the streets of the city as part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games torch relay. Butler is the actor who famously...

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...

For the very first time, a woman has been chosen to launch the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Games at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Greece. Greece's Olympic committee said Thursday it had chosen Rio de Janeiro...

The 12th annual blood donor torch relay started on Friday after the flame was ignited in front of the Greek Parliament, next to the Unknown Soldier monument, in downtown Athens. The Panhellenic Torch Relay of Volunteer Blood Donors is part of...

A Marathon Race will be taking place in Ottawa this year, as the highlight of the annual races. The marathon’s organization is under the initiative of the Greek Ambassador in Otawwa, Eleftherios Aggelopoulos. The Tamarack Ottawa Race will be held...

True story- This could only have happened in Scotland, reports Daily Star. According to a bystander, a Scottish man asked the Olympic torch-bearer to light his cigarette! In downtown Edinburgh, while the Olympic flame-bearers carried the torch through Scotland, Calum MacDonald thought...

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...