The Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics officially has begun its long and storied relay toward Milan’s San Siro Stadium, where it will light the cauldron at the Opening Ceremony on February 6, 2026.

Carlo Ratti, the designer of this year’s torch, explains what his torch says about this moment in time. An Olympic torch is a small, flaming time capsule.

The Olympic torch has been grasped by many a famous hand over the years, but no one quite like Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Every torch has a designer. For the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, that designer is MIT engineer and architect Carlo Ratti. A winter sports enthusiast, Ratti owns the architectural firm Carlo Ratti Associati and is originally from Turin,

Rain fell steadily as Amy Garff carried the Olympic torch through Saronno, Italy, just north of Milan, but the weather did little to slow her down.

Forty-six years ago, the 1980 Winter Olympic torch relay traveled through Columbia County, with a stop in Hudson, on its way to the Olympic Games in Lake Placid.

On a January morning in La Spezia, a city tucked in between Genoa and Pisa along Italy’s Ligurian coast, Dr. Riccardo Bianchi jogged down a stretch of a road he had known since childhood, with an Olympic torch burning steadily in his hand.

The Olympics are coming to Los Angeles in 2028, securing a signature event for the city that will bring international travellers and generate millions for others. The city of L.A. will have a tough choice in picking who gets the honor of carrying the Olympic torch, a key part of the opening ceremony.

For Black History Month, Leon Bibb shares the story of a NASA leader and physicist whose impact reaches far beyond space.

Regarding the 2028 Olympics, Pistons guard Cade Cunningham intends to 'take the torch' from Stephen Curry and LeBron James.