The Olympic flame that ... the torch-based flame to the Olympic cauldron. A ring of fire then powered a hot air balloon to rise up into the night sky above Paris in a spectacular display.

PARIS — When is a flame ... particularly the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. After a (very) long procession of famed French athletes carried the flame from the Seine River through the Jardin ...

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris ... night of the Games. Pool photo by Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt Tony Estanguet, the president of Paris 2024, said in a statement the aim of this new ...

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.

The logo for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been unveiled to both praise and mockery on social media. The new design at once depicts the Olympic flame within a gold medal, and the hair and lips ...

until the handover to Paris Games organizers in Athens on April 26. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the flame lighting combined “a pilgrimage to our past in ancient ...

Less than three months before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic flame was ignited in the traditional ceremony that takes place at the ruins of ancient Olympia. The lighting of ...

France — The Olympic flame is going for a sail. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic ... boiler in Paris on Friday. It looked as if Zinedine Zidane would light it, but he handed it off to Rafael ...

April 17, 2024 The Olympic flame being lit in Athens in 2017 for the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Photo: vverve/Depositphotos With 100 days to go until the opening ceremony in Paris ...

The French leg of the Paris Olympic flame relay began on Thursday in the southern port city of Marseille, a day after it arrived from Greece on a 19th century ship. French former star footballer ...

Years of source building and weeks of planning came to a head at the precise moment when the sun’s rays reflected on a cauldron failed to light the Olympic flame that in three months will open the ...