For the first time in the history of the Games, the cauldron — a 7-meter (23-feet) diameter ring of fire supported by a giant ...

I wanted it to be extremely pure, iconic and almost essential. Simple like a hyphen and fluid like a flame,’ Lehanneur said of his design. Lehanneur was tasked with three commissions that would take ...

PARIS (AP) — The night the Olympic and Paralympic ... So for Lehanneur, it made perfect sense to design a hot air balloon when he won the design competition and was awarded what he thinks ...

The cauldron balloon is the third design that Lehanneur created for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, following the torch and the relay cauldron. Lehanneur's previous works include the ...

In a nod to the Montgolfier brothers, the French pioneers of the hot air balloon whose design first took flight in 1783 in the same location as the Olympic flame, the cauldron’s designer Mathieu ...

De Lima lit the cauldron, signaling the start of these Olympics. Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima after lighting the Olympic flame during the Opening Ceremonies. (REUTERS/Ruben Sprich) The 2016 Olympic ...