The torch getting passed to the next runner in Coquelles. AFP via Getty Images Not only that, but usually 10,000 to 12,000 torches are made for the Olympic Games, which was reduced to 2,000 this ...

Then, once the Olympic torch arrives at the host country, the 68-day long Olympic torch relay begins. For the 2024 Paris Olympics, the torch relay began in Marseille, roughly eight hours south of ...

Former Olympic champions Rafer Johnson and Bob Hayes carried the torch through Dallas on June 13. Johnson, a civil rights icon, was the first African American to serve as the U.S. flag bearer at ...

Olympic Torch Lighting 2021: How Long Has the Olympic Flame Been Burning? The Olympic flame’s year-plus-long journey came to an end at the Opening Ceremony this evening in Tokyo ...

The Olympic torch will finally enter France. It's due to reach the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday and already, it has been quite a journey. Skip to content.

The torch for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has been unveiled -- one year before the opening ceremony. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. Log In.

Jin, left, he oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, takes the Olympic torch, July 14, 2024 in Paris.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay Grand Start torchbearers from the Japan's women's national soccer team lead the torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture on March 25, 2021.

The Olympic torch is seen from the helmet camera of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov in this view from a spacewalk on Nov. 9, 2013. Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy is seen awaiting the torch, which will ...

Jin, left, he oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, takes the Olympic torch, July 14, 2024 in Paris.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) ...