There perhaps is not a more symbolic and equally visible item at the Olympic Games than the Olympic torch. Every four years as the Olympics commence, this shining and uniquely designed piece of ...

German athlete Fritz Schilgen runs past German army soldiers with the Olympic torch on his way to lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics at the ...

It's unclear if the mysterious torch bearer is the final person who will light the Olympic cauldron, or simply the person who will deliver the torch to someone else. Toward the end of the ceremony ...