He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

(ATR) We only know the barest of details about plans for the Olympic torch relay for the 2020 Games in Tokyo. A slogan has been chosen. Special recognition to the earthquake region will be given.

She then dips the fuel-filled torch into a parabolic mirror which focuses the sun’s rays on it, and fire spurts forth. Tokyo Olympic rowing gold medalist Stefanos Ntouskos of Greece was the ...

One of the first runners in the Tokyo Olympics torch relay has dropped out of the event scheduled for Thursday, the Games organizing committee said on Wednesday. Homare Sawa, captain of Japan’s ...

It spent much of that time at a Tokyo Fire Department facility for safekeeping before going on public display at the Olympic Museum in Tokyo. The torch relay finally got underway on March 25 and is ...

A memorable Olympics as they are held in Asia for the first time with plenty of success for British athletes TOKYO had spent over ... lit the Olympic flame with a torch handed to him by Yoshinori ...

The torch came from the hand of Paralympic ... and the cyclist Marie Patouillet (double bronze medal in Tokyo). The Olympic fire also passed through the athlete Marie-José Perec, the judoka ...

Hundreds of people in central Tokyo have been given ... “Because there is an Olympic-related event.” An event welcoming the arrival of the Olympic torch is scheduled at the government ...

What's a torch bearer? Torch bearer Kim Magnus holds the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics torch during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games torch relay on November 4, 2017, in Busan ...