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The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony concluded with a one-of-a-kind lighting ceremony: a hot-air balloon as the Olympic cauldron. The cauldron was lit following a relay involving French, Spanish ...

The Rio Olympics is officially underway. After an evening of bright lights, visual story-telling, fireworks, dancing and ...

The iconic sign of the games will take off into the sky every night, landing again at 2 a.m., for the length of the Paris Olympics. But it's tethered to the ground the whole time. Did they just send ...

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens wants the Olympic cauldron to stay where it is, in Summerhill, according to a letter posted on ...

Rather than utilizing gas, the flaming effect is created with 40 LED lights and misting nozzles Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2015 and coordinates with ...

Tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games on Friday, ending the flame's long journey from Greece to these delayed Olympics. The cauldron sat atop a peak ...

Dickens said the city “stands ready to ensure the cauldron" and surrounding area appropriately honor Atlanta’s Olympic legacy ...

Mayor Andre Dickens is backing Summerhill residents in their fight to keep the cauldron from the 1996 Summer Olympics game in their community. Why it matters: A letter written Thursday by Dickens ...

One of sport’s most iconic objects developed over time, but several of the traditions surrounding it came from the Nazi games of 1936, writes Jonathan Glancey. Yuna Kim, South Korea’s popular figure ...