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From sunbeams to Olympic dreams: How a simple mirror creates the legendary Olympic flame
The creation of the Olympic flame involves a timeless ritual that bridges the ancient traditions of…
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ISRO announces plans to make India the third country to reach Mars, draws inspiration from NASA’s probes
ISRO is all set for the historic Mangalyaan-2 mission where the space agency will land a rover and …
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3 of the women who ran the 4x100 relay at the Rio Olympics had life-threatening pregnancy complications. After one of them died, the other sprinters are speaking out.
Tori Bowie, whose 4x100 meter relay team won gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016, died in May. Allyson…
Rebecca Cohen,Meredith Cash
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A US relay team favored to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics was reinstated after disqualification due to a possible officiating error
Team USA has won its appeal for reinstatement.
Jackson Thompson
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Watch Beijing pull off the first ever underwater Olympic torch relay between two submersible robots
Australia first took the Olympic flame underwater in 2000, but China is the first country to succes…
Julie Gerstein
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iOS 15.2 beta 3 brings new updates to Macro mode, iCloud Private Relay and more
In the new beta release, there is a “Macro Control” toggle in the camera section of the settin…
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India joins Olympic diplomatic boycott after Chinese solider injured in a deadly fight with Indian troops participates in torch relay
India now joins the US, Australia, Britain, and Canada in a diplomatic boycott of the games.
Brent D. Griffiths
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ISRO doesn't know when it will be ready to restart space launches
What would have been an insipid first half of the calendar year 2020 for the Indian space agency tu…
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An Olympic medalist admitted on live TV that she was 'sh------ herself' while swimming her relay leg
Sydney Pickrem was very candid during her TV interview after winning bronze for Team Canada in Sund…
Meredith Cash
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The key swimmers from the epic 4x100 relay during the 2008 Olympics
NBC has dubbed it the "greatest relay in Olympic history." Each summer Olympics, the incredible fin…
Scott Davis
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A UK relay team has been stripped of its silver medals from the Tokyo Olympics after a sprinter failed a drug test
Sprinter CJ Ujah tested positive for a banned substance after the Olympics in August, the Court of …
Jake Epstein
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A Belarusian Olympian who complained about her coaches used Google Translate to relay her plea for help to Japanese police
Team officials "made it clear that, upon return home, I would definitely face some form of punishme…
Lauren Frias
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American swimmer Caeleb Dressel tossed his relay gold medal to a teammate who didn't get to swim in the final
Caeleb Dressel and Team USA took gold in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Sunday, but they couldn…
Tyler Lauletta
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'I am going to run with a smile': Tsunami survivors carry Olympic flame in Tokyo Games torch relay
Takayuki Ueno, 46, is one of 10,000 torchbearers for the Tokyo Games. He lost his parents and child…
Cheryl Teh
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USA men's 4x100-meter relay team misses out on final after third disastrous baton handoff in four Oympics
Team USA dropped the baton at the past two Olympics in the men's 4x100-meter relay. This time it wa…
Tyler Lauletta
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Eerie photos of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay show just how different this year's Games will be to pre-pandemic predecessors
The Tokyo Olympics torch relay started on Thursday.Getty/Takashi Aoyama
Barnaby Lane
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A guide to proxy servers, the computer systems that relay information between users and networks, and how they can disguise users' online presence
A proxy server is an intermediate gateway that you can use to exchange information with internet re…
Dave Johnson
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A very speedy dog snuck into a high school relay race and ran the final 100m almost as fast as an Olympic sprinter
Holly the dog ran the final 100m of the race in Utah in around 10.5 seconds - one second shy of Usa…
Barnaby Lane
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Sprint legend Carl Lewis called the US 4x100 relay team a 'clown show' and an 'embarrassment' in a brutal takedown after their Tokyo failure
"It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable," said Lewis, a nine-time Olympic gold m…
Barnaby Lane
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The world's oldest person pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics torch relay over fears she'd bring COVID-19 back to her nursing home
Kane Tanaka, 118, and her family "were concerned about spreading the virus at the nursing home," an…