2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games organizers unveiled the routes for the Olympic and Paralympic torch relays, one year out from the lighting of the Olympic Flame. The Olympic Flame will be lit in ...

On Feb. 2, 2002, the Olympic flame skimmed across the steaming surface of the Glenwood Hot Springs Pool — the only time in the torch’s 45-state journey that the relay went aquatic. Now, more than two ...

Greek Alpine skier AJ Ginnis, a world slalom silver medalist and former U.S. Ski Team member, will be the first torchbearer of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic torch relay that starts Nov. 26. Ginnis, ...

VERONA, Italy — The Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games will pass through all 110 provinces in Italy on a 63-day journey before the cauldron is lit. Organizers announced the route for the ...

DENVER (AP) - Putting together the Olympic torch relay is a daunting task: Twenty-six countries in little more than two months, two Boeing 747 aircraft, an 18-vehicle caravan in every city, and ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Chinese students clashed with anti-Beijing demonstrators at the Olympic torch relay Sunday in Seoul, throwing rocks and punches at the latest stop on the flame's troubled ...

The International Olympic Committee threatens to cancel the torch relay. April 8, 2008 — -- San Francisco officials are bracing for protests Wednesday, when the Olympic torch is scheduled to pass ...

John Lee, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said on Tuesday that the torch relay ...

An estimated 5,500 tons of CO2 will be released by the time the Olympics begin. April 9, 2008 — -- Angry protesters, riot police, mass demonstrations, arrests for disorderly conduct -- it hasn't ...

JAKARTA, April 22 (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was paraded through a heavily guarded stadium in Jakarta on Tuesday after police stopped about 100 anti-China protesters from disrupting the latest leg ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated the start of the Olympic torch relay in Moscow on Sunday, counting down to next year’s Winter Games in Sochi. Declaring that “our shared dream is becoming ...