Following this the Olympic torch is brought into the stadium and passed on until it reaches the final torch carrier who lights the cauldron.

He was one of the Australian torch carriers at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

In rehearsal for such an event she summons a band of golden harps, and a torch carrier.

He was one of the torch carriers for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

Starting the 70-day tour of the United Kingdom at Land's End, he was the first of 8,000 torch carriers, passing the flame to 18-year-old Cornish surfer Tassy Swallow.

"And maybe the torch carrier could come with us."

Larry Bird was made into a lot of things by people who saw him as the torch carrier for his race in a sport dominated by blacks, but he was always his own, independent man.

As he did so, he noticed the rather rigid posture of a torch carrier.

Zhang had the honor of being an Olympic torch carrier at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Games.

The torch carriers who would oppose the tabards' progress stood by their massive barrel-shaped torches.