Traditionally, a parabolic mirror is used, but the backup flame was employed due to cloudy skies. The torch will now travel on a 68-day relay before it arrives in the French capital, where it will ...

The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic is scheduled July 26, when the relayed torch will light the event's Olympic flame. The ceremonial torch lighting and relay first began during the 1936 ...

A symbolic fire was introduced in 1928 to showcase the tournament's location to the surrounding community. The Olympic flame relay has its genesis in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, when secretary ...

"A lineup of 33 torchbearers ran with the flame throughAnadyr. The line-up included Russian musherMichael Telpin, who hails from the region. The relay route in Anadyr was approximately 5.6 miles.

MOSCOW, February 26, /ITAR-TASS/. A relay-race of the flame of the Paralympic Games-2014 begins in a number of Russia's cities on Wednesday. Mikhail Terentyev, General Secretary of the ...

the relay started from the inland Shizukuishi town on the three-day route through the prefecture. At the coastal Fudai village, Emi Kaneko, 15, a local high school freshman, transferred the flame ...

Over 400 torchbearers will run with the flame through the Rostov region over the next two days. RIA Novosti says the complete relay route through the Rostov region will exceed 44 miles.

This Flame was carried by 580 Torchbearers on a 24 hour overnight relay to London and the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games. As part of the initiative, over 150 school teams from across the UK ...