Ahead of the Games, the first ever Parapan American Torch Relay took place on 11 August ... The stunning success of the Games helped Rio successfully bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and ...

The USOPM has the only complete collection of Olympic torches dating back to the 1936 Games in Berlin. A high school student in Colorado Springs who survived a brain tumor is now helping other ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...

in recognition that skateboarding will be contested for the first time at this year's Olympic Games in Paris. Pupils from Palmers Cross Primary, the first school to receive the torch, were invited ...

[Photo/Agencies] GENEVA - Milano Cortina 2026 announced the time and routes of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games torch relays on Tuesday, as two different itineraries will celebrate the ...