The Paris Olympics cauldron is a ring of fire carried by a hot-air balloon. Instead of the usual ground-bound cauldron used at most Summer and Winter Games, the special edition for the Paris Olympics is intended as a tribute to the first ride taken in a hydrogen-filled gas balloon.
Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec watch as the cauldron rises in a balloon in Paris , France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024. Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec watch as the cauldron rises in a balloon in Paris , France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.
Instead of the usual ground-bound cauldron used at most Summer and Winter Games, the special edition for the Paris Olympics is intended as a tribute to the first ride taken in a hydrogen-filled gas balloon — made in 1783 by two of that balloon’s French inventors. They departed back then from the Tuileries Garden, which is near the Louvre Museum in the heart of Paris — and where the 2024 Olympic cauldron was lit before appearing to float into the sky.
Created by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, the cauldron is meant as a symbol of liberty — an element in the national slogan of “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.”
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