The Norwegian Nobel Committee and Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, jointly urged younger ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan State Police trooper has been selected to carry the torch at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Specialist Trooper Jacob Lewis has ...

Jin of BTS to carry torch for South Korea at 2024 Paris Olympics - Singer, who returned from mandatory military service in June, will travel to France to spread message of ‘harmony and peace’ ...

The Hong Kong-born martial arts actor Jackie Chan will be one of the hundreds of torchbearers who will carry the Paralympic flame to 50 cities throughout France in the run-up to the 2024 ...

ROCHESTER, New York, June 25 (Reuters) - Cristie Kerr is on a crusade to win another major and carry the torch for U.S. women's golf at the LPGA Championship. Kerr, the top-ranked American woman ...

A total of 11,500 people will carry the Olympic torch in its 46-state trek through the United States. However, South Dakota, North Dakota, Hawaii and Minnesota are not on the 13,500-mile route.

Rapper Snoop Dogg will be one of the last people to carry the Olympic torch before it is used to light the cauldron with the Olympic flame.

Earlier in the day, 21-year-old Jana Hergert of Rock Island will carry it on the segment through Gary, Ind. Galesburg, Ill., resident Jerry Wick, 39, will carry the torch Jan. 8 or 9 in St. Louis.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach took part in the final stages of the Pyeongchang Olympics torch relay ahead of the opening ceremony ...

The Olympic Torch will spend two days in Montana later this month as it travels toward Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2002 Winter Games. More than 150 Montanans have been selected to carry the ...