The official countdown to this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics began with the lighting of the torch at the site of the ancient Games Thursday and organizers hoping to shift attention away from Brazil's political and financial turmoil.
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The final rehearsal for the lighting of the flame that will burn at the London Olympics went off without a hitch under bright sunny skies in the birthplace and site of the Ancient Games.
Standing in front of the 2,600-year-old Temple, an actress (...)
Three men from a free-press group ran onto the field of the stadium in Ancient Olympia during Monday's flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Games, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions in the wake of China's crackdown in (...)
One way or another, Beijing will get its Olympic flame.
At Sunday's final rehearsal, clouds over the ancient games' ruined birthplace prevented organizers from kindling the torch for the 2008 Olympics in the traditional way - using the sun's rays (...)
