Olympic Flame

The Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will pass through all 110 provinces in Italy on a 63-day journey before the cauldron is lit.

On Saturday, 23 November, the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) Schools came together in a remarkable celebration of unity and pride to honour the Olympic spirit and its values through a unique Olympiad event.

It took countless events and many years for the Olympic officials to decide to honor the birthplace of the Games, Greece.

Around 70,000 spectators gathered at the Stade de France to witness the closing of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games in Paris. The ceremony began in the Tuileries Gardens, where the Olympic flame had been placed during the Games. France's swimming sensation, Leon Marchand, took the flame from the Gardens with a lantern and made his way to the Stade de France, marking the start of the event.

Paris handed over the Olympic flag to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, setting the stage for the next Games in 2028 during a closing ceremony.

A unique mystery has emerged around the identity of the hooded runner carrying the Olympic Flame, who made their appearance at the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26.

The question, “Who is the masked runner with the Olympic Flame?” remained unanswered.

French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the 33rd Olympic Games in Paris, with the Olympic flame being ignited at the end of an extensive relay by athlete Marie-José Perec and judoka Teddy Riner, who then lifted the flame into the sky with a balloon.

Fotini Papaleonidopoulou was 10 years old when her face became one of the symbols of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Joyful crowds gathered along the streets of France's southern port of Marseille on Thursday to see torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through the city's most emblematic sites, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for a welcoming ceremony.