With thousands of spectators cheering the Olympic flame is carried onto Mexican territory 10/6 following it's 6 week journey by land and sea from Mr....
Italian speed skating champion Guido Caroli gave the assemblage and himself a bad moment during the Winter Olympic official opening when he fell to...
Italian long distance runner Dordoni is shown holding up the Olympic torch which was ceremonially lighted by Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini at Rome's...
Former Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph, winner of three gold medals, triumphantly lights the festival torch of the 4th National; Sports Festival...
Montreal, Canada: Canadian teenagers Sandra Anderson and Stephen Prefontaine, jointly carry the Olympic Flame into Olympic Stadium, where they passed...
Stockholm. Sweden- Cavalry Captain Hans Wikne, of Sweden, is applying the torch to the Olympic flame at the ceremonial opening of the 16th Equestrian...
The Olympic flame burns for the Sarajevo Winter Games after Yugoslav figure skater Sanda Dubravcic lights the cauldron in the opening ceremonies.
Squaw Valley, California: Spectators pass the Olympic torch from one to another during opening ceremony.
Enriqueta Basilio will be the first woman in history to carry the Olympic torch on its last leg and ignite the Olympic flame for the 1968 October...
Enriqueta Basilio will be the first woman in history to carry the Olympic torch on its last leg and ignite the Olympic flame for the 1968 October...
Flags of nations are at half-staff behind the Olympic torch during memorial services September 6 for the 11 dead Israeli athletes.
Olympic decathlon gold medal winner Rafer Johnson stands atop a stairway to light the Olympic rings which will, in turn, light the Olympic Flame at...
Egil Nansen, the Norse skier and grandson of the famed arctic explorer, is shown with the Olympic torch used to kindle the Olympic fire at the formal...
An Olympic tradition that dates back more than 2,000 years is shown being observed here. In line with the old tradition and in preparation for the...
London, England- OLYMPIC FLAME IS LIT TO INAUGURATE THE GAMES. A British runner, unknown until the last moment... Anchor man of the long relay of...
Hideki Takada carries the Olympic torch to the top of Makamanai stadium 2/3 to light the giant brazier and officially open the XI Winter Olympic...
Montreal, Canada- Canadian teenagers Sandra Anderson and Stephen Prefontaine jointly carry the Olympic Flame into Olympic Stadium, where they passed...
Olympia, Greece- Young Greek girls, dressed in appropriate Ancient Greek costumes, light the Olympic torch. The flame is created through the sun rays...
"Fisheye view"...Enriqueta Basilio brings Olympic Torch up 90 steps to light Olympic Fire during 10/12 opening ceremony of 1968 Olympics. She's the...
Mexico City: A First. Enriqueta Basilio will be the first woman in history to carry the Olympic torch on its last leg and ignite the Olympic flame...
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia: Yugoslav figure skater Sanda Dubravcic after lighting the Olympic flame at the Kosevo Stadium, February 8, to officially open...
Gunter Zahn , 18-year-old West German junior athlete and a policeman, carries Olympic Flame as he arrives for opening ceremonies for the XX Olympiad...
Munich, Germany. With a backdrop of flags and a roaring flame overhead, Gunter Zahn pauses after lighting the Olympic flames signifying the opening...
Rome, Italy- Italian athlete Gianfranco Peris carries the Olympic torch as he jogs around the track, August 24th, in a rehearsal for the opening of...
Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph of the U.S. Lights the torch 8/8 in the opening ceremony of the pan American Games.
Moscow, Russia-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Sergei Belov, Soviet basketball coach, ignites the Olympic torch at Lenin Stadium during ceremony opening the...
Dr. Charles Morgan Kerr holds his torch aloft after lighting the Olympic flame 2/13 during opening ceremonies for the 1980 Winter Olympic games.
Montreal: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II rises to her feet as the Olympic flame is passed on to the urn in Olympic Stadium, during opening ceremonies...
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau holds Olympic flame aloft during ceremony on Parliament Hill when the Olympic flame was lit by a...
Canadian teenagers Sandra Anderson and Stephen Prefontaine jointly light the Olympic urn in the stadium by passing the flame from their torch 7/17.
Paavo Nurmi brings Olympic Flame to Opening Ceremony. Helsinki: Paavo Nurmi sprints round the track at the Olympic Stadium here with Olympic flame,...
London, England- FIRE FROM OLYMPUS LIGHTS THE OLYMPIC FLAME IN LONDON. The historic moment of the arrival of the "Olympic Flame" from Olympus in...
London, England- Competitors, male and female, who will take part in the wide variety of events of the fourteenth Olympiad of the modern age, stand...
Dover, England- OLYMPIC TORCH THROUGH THE NIGHT. Hand-picked runners in relays carried the Olympic torch from Dover, where it was landed from a...
Berlin, Germany: An impressive moment in the Lustgarten, Berlin as the last of the 3,000 runners that brought the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece,...
Torches which had been run on different routes around Japan are joined into 1 at a pre-Olympic ceremony outside the Imperial Palace.
Skier uses a torch to light the Olympic flame atop snowcapped peak of Mount Olympus, mythical home to the Greek gods, prior to the commencement of...
Full-length image of Maria Moscholiou , Olympic high priestess, standing with her hands at her sides after handing the torch to the first of the...
Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, a former gold medalist, lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympic Games, Helsinki,...
Pair of unidentified Olympic torch bearers embrace the day before the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics, California, July 27, 1984.
Framed by the entrance to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the silhouette of American Olympian Rafer Johnson is seen holding the Olympic Torch during...
View of Linda Metz as she runs, with the Olympics torch, on an unspecified road, New Jersey, mid to late 1984. The photo, taken to reenact the 1984...
View of the entrance to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles, California, July 28, 1984. Visible at fore is one...
View of the entrance to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles, California, July 28, 1984. Visible at fore is one...
Framed by the entrance to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the silhouette of American Olympian Rafer Johnson is seen holding the Olympic Torch during...
View of Linda Metz as she runs, with the Olympics torch, on an unspecified road, New Jersey, mid to late 1984. The photo, taken to reenact the 1984...
Costumed dancers performing during the reception ceremony for the Olympic torch at the Pyramid of the Moon near Mexico City, Mexico, October 11th...
Three Olympic flames burn brightly during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, February 8th 1980. The torch...
Relay team of 17 swimmers preparing to carry the Olympic flame to the shore at Veracruz in Mexico, October 6th 1968. Two swimmers are positioned on...
View of the Olympic flame burning above the Olympic Stadium during the opening day of the Summer Olympics' track and field events, Mexico City,...
The final torch-bearer, Mexican track and field athlete Enriqueta Basilio , posing with the Olympic flame prior to becoming the first woman to light...
Dancers performing at the illuminated base of the Pyramid of the Moon during rehearsals for the Summer Olympics' reception ceremony for the Olympic...
Opening ceremony for the XXIII Olympic Games on 28 July 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, United States.