Echoes of the Torch Relay
The Olympic Torch Relay provided another echo of the 2004 Games as it arrived in Alexandroupolis when Javelin thrower Kostas Gatsioudis lit a temporary Cauldron. Twenty years ago, he was the first runner to set in motion the Athens 2004 Torch Relay at Ancient Olympia. […]
Flame to Return to Corfu
The Olympic Flame is scheduled to return to Corfu on Wednesday, over 75 years after its first visit to the island en route for the 1948 London Games. Civil strife in Greece had made it impossible to take the Flame to Athens for the formal handover. Former Royal Navy Commander Bill […]
The Olympic Flame of Thessaloniki
The Olympic Flame reached Thessaloniki in the North of Greece, where Tasoula Kelesidou, double Olympic silver medallist in the women’s discus stood alongside Thessaloniki Mayor Stelios Angeloudis to ignite the cauldron on the beach. In the gathering dusk, the Relay had passed beneath […]
Crowds welcome the Flame
A huge weekend crowd has welcomed the Olympic Flame to the port of Volos where the cauldron was lit by double Olympic rowing medallist Vasilios Polymeros. He won bronze at Athens 2004 in men’s lightweight double sculls and was also silver medallist at Beijing 2008. […]
Kaklamanakis Carries the Flame
The Olympic Flame returned briefly to Athens recalling memories of the Games twenty years ago when windsurfer Nikos Kaklamanakis lit the Olympic Flame. In the shadow of the stadium where the Ceremony had taken place, Kaklamanakis lit a much smaller cauldron in […]
Freedom of Olympia Awards
Ancient Olympia has conferred its greatest award on two legendary Olympic Champions to mark the 2800th anniversary of the first recorded Olympic Games of ancient times. Ioannis Melissanidis won gold in the men’s floor exercise at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “It is an extra honour […]
IOA Students Join Torch Relay
Students from the International Olympic Academy (IOA) Masters in Olympic Studies programme have taken the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay. They were visibly moved as they joined IOA Dean and ISOH Committee member Kostas Georgiadis for a leg of the Relay in the town of Zacharo […]
The Olympic Flame begins its journey to Paris
Greek rowing gold medallist Stefanos Ntouskos began the Torch Relay for Paris 2024 at the historic stadium here in Ancient Olympia, but the Flame he carried was one lit in the rehearsal. On the day, grey skies had made it impossible to kindle from the rays of the sun […]
Lighting Ceremony Preparations
2004 Olympic swimming gold medallist Laure Manaudou has been confirmed as the first French Torchbearer in the Paris 2024 Relay tomorrow. Manaudou who has already been named as a “Captain” of the Relay, is set to receive it from Tokyo single sculls champion Stefanos Ntouskos. […]
Ancient Olympia Exhibition Recalls History of Olympic Torch
The town of Ancient Olympia is festooned with the flags of Olympic nations and the French tricolor today flies alongside Greek flags on the roadway leading towards the Ancient site where the Paris Olympic Flame is to be lit by the rays of the sun on […]