The ceremonial lighting of the torch marks the official 100-day countdown to the competition.

The Invictus Games torch has been passed to Birmingham after the closing ceremony of the 2025 event was staged in Canada. The ...

Olympic Torch in Space The torch relay for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia,included a spacewalk and ceremonial handoffs on the International Space Station. This Russian-language video ...

NARA--Todaiji temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will partially ease COVID-19 restrictions and reopen the Shunie torch-bearing ceremony to the public during the main event from March 1 to 14.

IMAGE: PM Modi receives the ceremonial torch from Olympian Lakshya Sen during the 38th National Games opening ceremony in Dehradun on Tuesday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Uttarakhand DIPR/X A modest ...