An Olympic torch relay aircraft called Tokyo 2020 Go will fly the torch from Greece to Japan on Friday, ... The torch was lit Thursday near the Temple of Hera in ancient Olympia, Greece.

The Olympic torch was lit in Ancient Greece to begin its 133 day journey to Tokyo for the 2020 Summer olympics, where Japan insist the games will still go ahead as planned.

An ancient Japanese Buddhist temple which cancelled its role in the Olympic torch relay has been vandalised. The Zenkoji Buddhist Temple in the city of Nagano was to have been the starting point ...

Actress Katerina Lehou, right, as high priestess, lights the torch during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame in Ancient Olympia, southwestern Greece, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The flame will ...

In 1936, 3,422 torch bearers ran 0.6 miles along the route of the torch relay from Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympics, to Berlin. Diem was derided as a “White Jew,” because his wife had ...

The Tokyo 2020 Torch has begun its journey from Ancient Olympia to the Japanese capital after the traditional lighting ceremony in the place where the Olympic Games of antiquity were held.