French designer Mathieu Lehanneur created the electric Olympic cauldron for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to resemble a hot-air balloon and be "a beacon in the night and a sun within ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony concluded with a one-of-a-kind lighting ceremony: a hot-air balloon as the Olympic cauldron. The cauldron was lit following a relay involving French, Spanish ...

The cauldron, with the Olympic flame lit, lifts off while attached to a balloon, during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024. PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP The Olympic ...

Lehanneur has risen to the challenge of creating a spectacle laden with symbolism. For a designer whose work is more usually characterised by ethereal elegance, he has combined a perfect sense of ...

The iconic sign of the games will take off into the sky every night, landing again at 2 a.m., for the length of the Paris Olympics. But it's tethered to the ground the whole time. CNET editor Gael ...