The Tokyo Olympic torch relay began in Olympia, Greece, on Thursday at the traditional Olympic Flame lighting ceremony, held with limited attendance due to coronavirus concerns. “We are especially ...

The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics featured the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium by tennis star Naomi Osaka. The Olympic cauldron was lit by a torch, but the torch ...

TOKYO (AP) — Organizers plan to exercise extreme caution when the Olympic torch relay starts next week, knowing any stumble could imperil the the opening of the Tokyo Games in just over four months.

The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics is to start in a month, which should be a sign that the troubled Olympics are on track to begin on July 23. It was at this stage at the start of the ...

FUKUSHIMA/TOKYO (Reuters) - When Shusaku Sagi was 19, he watched his soccer training centre at J-Village in Fukushima morph into a base for workers decommissioning the nuclear power plant nearby after ...

TOKYO, June 23 (Reuters) - Authorities are considering moving the first three days of the Tokyo leg of the Olympic torch relay off public roads, because a quasi-state of emergency will still be in ...

The Olympic torch relay for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games kicked off in Rome on Saturday. The flame arrived in Italy ...