Fire and fury: the Olympic torch relay

As the 2024 torch crosses Greece before heading for France, AFP looks back at some of the most dramatic moments of past relays. Blazing jocks One of the most memorable stunts involving the torch pageantry dates to 1956 ahead of the Melbourne Games when an Australian university student named Barry Larkin fooled crowds with a homemade torch topped by burning underpants. Larkin managed to get his torch -- a wooden chair leg crowned with a metal pudding container topped with the fiery underwear -- up...