Winter Olympics - Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - Ancient Olympia, Olympia, Greece - October 18, 2021 Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role ...

BEIJING--China lit its Olympic flame in Beijing on Wednesday after the ceremonial torch arrived from Athens, ahead of the Chinese capital’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Games in February.

BEIJING - MARCH 31: Colour papers shoot into the sky during the welcome ceremony for the Olympic flame & launching ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay at Tiananmen Square on March 31 ...

Greece on Tuesday handed over the Olympic flame to organisers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, a day after the lighting ceremony was disrupted by activists calling for the event to be postponed.

The Olympic flame was first used in the 1936 Olympic ... up by wires across the stadium to light the flame at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But for many, the 1992 Barcelona Olympics remain top ...

The scaled-down torch relay is a far cry from 2008, when Beijing sent the Olympic flame on a global journey ahead of hosting that year’s Summer Games. The relay drew protesters against China’s ...

Look back on them before the Olympics return to Beijing on Feb. 3 Kate Hogan is ... before using his torch to ignite the flame. Another U.S. star was gymnast Nastia Liukin, who won gold in the ...

Short-track Speedskating One of the more recent additions to the Winter Olympic program will expand to nine events in Beijing. Speedskating A dominant Dutch team welcomes two of the sport's most ...

Welcome to the world’s biggest winter celebration! Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022 is a wild party game where up to 20 players compete in real-time through a series of chaotic mini-games until ...

A professor and former athlete offers insight into how Chinese athletes have prepared for the Summer… Years of preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games culminated Friday as world leaders ...