The lighting of the Olympic cauldron symbolizes the opening of the Olympic Games. That makes it a pretty big deal to Olympic fans and organizers alike. Each ceremony puts its own spin on the ...

PARIS (AP) — The night the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron first flew over Paris, its designer Mathieu Lehanneur held his breath: Nothing could go wrong. The balloon, lit by the Olympic torch ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight the Mathieu Lehanneur-designed boiler in Paris on Friday. It looked as if ...

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris Games, but that’s not a fire in the cauldron. Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the “flame” resting in the ...

Teen environmental advocates held a protest raising awareness for Great Salt Lake, saying a drying lake could impact the 2034 ...

The Sport, Arts, and Culture Minister, Gayton McKenzie, sashayed his way to Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

While Antoine Arnault of LVMH may insist that "financial benefits have never been a goal of this partnership," NBC’s ...

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games beginning with Olympiad II in Paris in 1900.

With the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics on the horizon, the city of Long Beach plans to spend in a big way to prepare for ...

French authorities say they have charged seven individuals for allegedly harassing Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for ...