Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the enormous cauldron comprises 40 LED spotlights and 200 misting nozzles and is tethered to what ...

The crowd erupts in applause and bravos. In an instant, he rounds the Cronion ring road and is off, running with the sacred flame of Olympia to transmit the Olympic light - the eternal Greek ...

Watch as the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to an end with the lighting of the Olympic flame and Celine Dion's performance on the Eiffel Tower. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport.

Photo: Courtesy of the curator Xiao Ge. French artist Bernar Venet stunned visitors in Paris with his monumental sculpture ...

The Paris Games are over, the Olympic flame that hung suspended in a cauldron ... and fan communities in the U.S. and globally,” he added. It will mark a first-ever Olympic appearance for ...

He also has a pair of bronze medals and dozens of medals won ... "conclude" the allegory of the French motto of equality and fraternity. The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, ...

The AP team in Athens went above and beyond across formats to get exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes operation of lighting the Olympic flame, producing excellent work for both traditional and ...

AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was severely injured on assignment last October in Lebanon, will carry the Olympic Flame on Sunday, 21 July, in Vincennes, France, "to pay tribute to those who ...

The Olympic flame arrived in Marseille on Wednesday in front of 200,000 spectators, just weeks before the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. What economic impact will the competition ...

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During the Opening Ceremony, he received the torch from French football great Zinedine Zidane and was in a select group of athletes carrying the torch down the River Seine toward the Olympic cauldron.