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, Oct 18 (IANS) The Olympic Flame that will be burning for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games was ignited on Monday at the birthplace of the Games in Ancient Olympia, Greece.During the traditional ceremony, actress Xanthi Georgiou in the role of an ...

With the red Chinese national flag and the blue Greek flag unfurled under the azure sky at Ancient Olympia, Greece, the Aegean nation was relieved of the gloom brought by rain of last week and basked in sunshine Monday. The lighting of the Olympic flame for the Beijing Winter Olympics in Olympia reminded the world that it is officially entering Winter Olympics time, two months after the Tokyo Games.

The Olympic flame will once again be lit in an empty stadium on Monday as it starts its truncated journey to Beijing for the Winter Games in February. Like the ceremony in March 2020 to light the flame for Tokyo, and like those Games, which were put back a year, Monday's ceremony is a victim of coronavirus restrictions. "Due to the situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic,

The skier Giannis Antoniou will be the first Torchbearer at the Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Winter Olympic Games "Beijing 2022" which will

The coronavirus pandemic will again keep spectators away from another Olympic flame lighting ceremony scheduled for next month, the Greek Olympic Committee announced on Wednesday.

The Olympic Flame at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Credit: Alterego, CC BY-SA 3.0On this day in 2004, the Athens Olympics held its historic opening ceremony celebration. Athens had been chosen as the host site for the XXVIII Olympiad at the 106th IOC session in Luasanne, Switzerland on September 5, 1997. The games marked…

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The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo pushed through a year long delay, protests about hosting the event, and the city's worst outbreak of COVID-19, which changed the Olympic experience dramatically.

Apparently abandoned a fleet of trucks left behind. its yet another blow to the countrys crumbling security forces who have lost control of at least three cities since friday. the expertise of the taliban advance as u.s. troops with draw has shocked the west. >> the war in afghanistan has entered a new deadlier and more destructive phase. >> reporter: u.s. forces have provided some air cover to struggling afghan troops but no more than that. >> the president made clear after 20 years at war, its...

Fifty-seven years after it last hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo has seen two very different Olympic Games. Philip Barker tells the story of change from Tokyo to Tokyo.