
The "high priestess" passes the Olympic flame a lighting ceremony at the Temple of Hera, in Olympia, ahead of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games.

A torch bearer runs through the streets en route to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, in 1936.

The Olympic flame in London in 1948.

A torchbearer at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952.

The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Bislett Stadium in Oslo.

Final torch bearer Yoshinori Sakai runs during a rehearsal in Tokyo, Japan, in 1964.

Sprinter Enriqueta Basilio, the first woman to light the Olympic flame, carries the torch during opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games in Mexico City.

A torchbearer at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Soviet basketball player Sergei Belov runs with the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Former French soccer player Michel Platini and young skier Francois-Cyrille Grange walk with the Olympic torch during the 1992 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony, in Albertville, France.

Ski jumper Stein Gruben prepares for his descent with the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics.

Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., passes the Olympic torch to her son Dexter Scott King in 1996 in Atlanta.

American Olympic ice skater Kristi Yamaguchi runs the torch through the streets of Nagano, Japan, in 1998.

Marine biologist Wendy Craig-Duncan carries the Sydney Olympic torch underwater along the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland.

Olympic athlete Nikolaos Kaklamanakis carries the torch for the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.

An Italian torchbearer holds the Olympic flame in a gondola on Canale Grande in Venice in 2006 on the way to the Turin Winter Games.

David Beckham with the Olympic torch in the 2012 London Summer Games.

Model Alessandra Ambrosio runs with the Olympic flame through Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Games.

Torchbearers carry the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

Torchbearer Rio Suzuki, a junior high school student, carries the Olympic torch at Somanakamura Shrine in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, ahead of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Summer Games.

Torchbearers exchange the flame in Tokyo, Japan.


