The story of the marathon begins in the rugged hills of ancient Greece, where long-distance running was not a pastime but a ...

The Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games was ignited at the birthplace of the Games in Ancient Olympia, in ...

The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games after bad weather forced officials to ...

High Priestess Mary Mina, left, lights a torch from the Olympic flame during the flame lighting ceremony for the Milan ...

Due to poor weather conditions, the ceremony was for the first time moved inside - to the Archaeological Museum ...

From Olympia — birthplace of the ancient games — to Milan’s San Siro Stadium on Feb. 6, the torch will cross Italy’s cities ...

This year, due to poor weather conditions the ceremony was moved for the first time from the open air to the Archaeological Museum ...

Even the gods need a backup plan. Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal Monday to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, seizing on a brief break in Greece’s ...

The torch-lighting ceremony next week for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will be relocated from the ancient stadium ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Lambis Nikolaou, a former International Olympic Committee vice president who helped to organize the 2004 Athens Summer Games, has died. He was 89. Nikolaou was an IOC ...