The Olympic flame will make a 70-day journey across Britain ahead of the 2012 London Games, with more than 8,000 people taking part in a youth-dominated torch relay. The flame will arrive in Britain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A London-based studio will design the torch that will carry the Olympic flame for the 2012 Games. The design firm headed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby has been selected by the London Olympic ...

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 ...