The torch will have to first cross the Mediterranean ... Or as one journalist I know, who covered the Olympics in Rio, put it: “It’s a shag-fest.” So as romance breaks out in the Parisian ...

Florent Manaudou, a French swimming legend who won 2012 Olympic gold in the men’s 50m freestyle ... who won gold in the women’s 400m at the Rio Games. From Marseille, the torch proceeded on a 68-day ...

MARSEILLE: The Olympic torch relay began in Marseille on Thursday ... After the Covid-hit edition in Tokyo in 2021 and the corruption-tainted Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, the Paris Olympics ...

The torch also bears the markings for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. This is the prototype of the final design and was used by Paines Fireworks to come up with a safe, portable and smokeless fuel ...

The former Spanish tennis player last week received a historic gift from the International Olympic Committee: the torch with which he took part in the relay during the Paris 2024 opening ceremony ...