None, though, are as symbolic as lighting the Olympic cauldron. Every two years, host nations put on an immersive ceremony to kick off the event. It all culminates with the cauldron being lit ...

Did they just send the Olympic cauldron up into the Paris skies in a hot-air balloon? IS the cauldron a hot-air balloon? Will it just float around there in the sky for two weeks? If you watched ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the games head to our latest updates. Before this year, the Olympic cauldron always sat on the ground as real fire ...

PARIS (AP) — The night the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron first flew over Paris, its designer Mathieu Lehanneur held his breath: Nothing could go wrong. The balloon, lit by the Olympic torch ...

The Paris 2024 Olympic ceremony was held on Friday. The Olympic cauldron was set alight, symbolizing the opening of the games. The ceremonial moment is a big deal for Olympics fans and each host ...

It is then carried by a relay of torchbearers across various countries, symbolizing the spread of Olympic values worldwide, before culminating in the lighting of the cauldron at the opening ceremo ...

Two big questions remained just hours before the Olympics began: Who would actually light the cauldron and where would it be? The answer to that question, as of a few hours before the festivities ...