In 776 B.C.E., spectators gathered in Olympia, Greece, to watch a simple footrace ... finally illuminating a large torch in the Olympic stadium. While this torch-to-torch relay has emerged ...

Where else, it occurred to me, but in the ancient Olympic Stadium? I arrived at ... The lovely sanctuary of Olympia was remote, nestled in Greece’s southwest corner 210 miles from Athens ...

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia ... And inside the stadium the athletes would stand naked before all of Greece and the gods. Here they competed not for money but to ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), September 29 (Itar-Tass ... After that the “priestess” give the flame at the ancient Olympic stadium to the first torchbearer - a young Greek skier Ioannis Antoniou.

Here's what to know on the history of the Olympic orch, the Olympic flame and more heading into 2024 Paris Olympics: ...

The Olympic torch will cross Greece for the next 10 days until the fire hits the Panathinaic Stadium in Athens on April 26, the site of the first Games in 1896. The next day, he will depart from ...

Winter Olympics - Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - Ancient Olympia, Olympia, Greece - October ... tomorrow in Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, it will ...

From the ancient stadium in Olympia, a relay of torchbearers will ... is increasingly seen as a potential successor. From Greece, the Olympic flame will travel from Athens' port of Piraeus on ...

Renowned Greek-American presenter and actress Maria Menounos has been appointed Ambassador of the Hellenic Olympic Committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, in a move aimed at uniting the ...