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The Organising Committee of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 revealed its Olympic torch design today during an event marking one year to go until the Games begin. (Beijing 2022)The torch was ...

Burners in some previous Olympic torch designs have been the subject of university projects ... with even gaps all around. It is a liquid feed design, a technique possibly introduced with Sydney’s ...

Symbolising the Paris 2024 commitment to equality, the torch’s symmetrical design showcases this idea. For the first time, both the Paralympic and Olympic Games have the same design, representing a ...

One of the most valuable Olympic torches used to ignite the ceremony flame is up for auction, and its bidding price starts at a whopping $151,250. The listing for the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter ...

A pupil's Olympic-style torch design will be made into a life-sized model after she won a competition. Hester, from Finham Park Academy, Coventry, was one of more than 2,000 children who entered ...

Olympic history goes back nearly 2,800 years, and a big part of that history is the Olympic torch. How bright is your Olympic torch knowledge? Take this quiz to find out What information do we ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...

The 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee on Feb. 25 announced a new set of guidelines for the Olympic torch relay, scheduled to start in a month, to reduce the risk of infection from the novel ...

The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...