2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
The cauldron has been lit on the 2024 Paris Olympics. After its lengthy parade, French monitor and subject star Marie-Jo Pérec and French judoka star Teddy Riner lit the cauldron that was inside on the backside of a scorching air balloon.
In a pre-recorded clip, the French soccer icon Zinedine Zidane carried the Olympic torch on the ultimate leg of its journey, which started April 16, 2024. The Olympic flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, and traveled to Athens earlier than it sailed throughout the Mediterranean sea to Marseille, the place it started its trek throughout France.
Within the recorded clip, Zidane, who received the 1988 Ballon D’Or and led France to the 1988 World Cup, handed the torch off to a baby, who acquired in a ship with a mysterious determine. The id of the Olympic cauldron lighter had been one of the crucial carefully held secrets and techniques of the Paris opening ceremony.
The mysterious determine will be seen carrying the torch all through the ceremony, carrying it on high of buildings, by means of buildings, up and down stairs, by means of the Lourve, and plenty of extra. On the finish of the athlete parade, the determine will be seen bringing the torch down the Seine whereas it rides a stationary silver horse and wears the Olympic flag on its again.
The determine seems on a horse as soon as once more, this time on land and on a transferring horse, nonetheless sporting the Olympic flag. The determine then carries the Olympic flag onto the stage contained in the stadium that’s now dwelling to the entire athletes.
Zinedine Zidane makes one other look, carrying the torch once more. He fingers it off to Rafael Nadal who hails from Spain. Usually, the torch is handed off to individuals from the host nation on the finish of the journey.
Nadal then takes the torch onto the Seine River on a ship. The boat additionally options Serena Williams, Carl Lewis, and Nadia Comăneci. All three athletes maintain the torch sooner or later within the journey with Williams first receiving the torch, Comaneci second, and Lewis third. On the finish of the boat trip, French tennis participant Amélie Mauresmo takes the torch and parades by means of the streets passing the gang earlier than going previous the Lourve.
The torch is handed to quite a few athletes because it makes its technique to the cauldron.
Marie-Jo Pérec and Teddy Riner take the torch on the finish of the parade, take the stage to gentle the cauldron. The cauldron is on a scorching air balloon that then raises into the air. The situation of the recent air balloon was additionally on the web site of the primary hydrogen flight which occurred again in 1783.
Proper after the balloon is within the air, Celine Dion of Canada sings a track from French singer Edith Piaffe “The Little Sparrow”
