NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the games head to our latest updates. Before this year, the Olympic cauldron always sat on the ground as real fire ...

The flame will now begin its journey in a relay to light the cauldron that will mark the opening for the Summer Games in July. Dignitaries and members of the public gathered in the stadium ...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the flame lighting combined “a pilgrimage to our past in ancient Olympia, and an act of faith in our future.” “In these difficult times ...

The light of the flame was examined with a Rowland’s grating. Whenever the circuit was closed both D lines were seen to widen. Since one might attribute the widening to the known effects of the ...

ATHENS, March 12 (Reuters) - Next month's Paris 2024 Olympics flame lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia will showcase a new high priestess, redesigned costumes and fresh music as Greece looks to ...

Forty-eight performers, chosen in part for their resemblance to youths in antiquity as seen in statues and other surviving artwork, will take part Tuesday in the flame-lighting ceremony for the ...