LAND'S END, England -- British sailing hero Ben Ainslie kicked off the torch relay for the 2012 London Olympics on Saturday with a stroll through teary, flag-waving crowds who cheered the arrival of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Olympic flame will pay a visit to Britain's most famous launderette and pub next year after London 2012 organisers announced that the torch relay route would pass through the ...

The London 2012 Summer Games, like so many Olympic competitions before it, will feature its fair share of non-athletic spectacle. But even you sporting purists must admit, the Olympics needs its pomp ...

With exactly one week to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, the Olympic Flame will be abseiled from a helicopter to the Tower of London this evening as it arrives for its ...

Designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby won a competitive tender launched last year by London 2012 and the Design Council to create the Torch, along with the celebration cauldrons to be used at the ...

Stephanie Handojo (pictured above), an Indonesian Special Olympics gold medallist with Down's syndrome, is flying from her home city of Jakarta, the country's capital, especially to run in the 2012 ...

The Olympic flame will travel to Ireland before the 2012 London Games in an historic and symbolic gesture of peace and political goodwill. The International Olympic Committee on Thursday approved ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The London 2012 Olympics has unwittingly acquired its first iconic image after unveiling an Olympic torch design which looks like a huge cheesegrater on Wednesday. The gold-colored ...

The Olympic Flame is a symbol of continuity between the ancient and modern games. It has been lit in a ceremony in Olympia, Greece, ahead of every Games since Berlin 1936, when the Olympic Torch Relay ...

British sailing hero Ben Ainslie kicked off the torch relay for the 2012 London Olympics with a stroll through teary, flag-waving crowds who cheered the arrival of the flame to Britain. Hundreds of ...