Everything we have learned about the Paris Olympics flame is a lie.
Many French people, as well as tourists, flocked to the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris to see the spectacular Olympic cauldron up close following its debut at the 2024 Summer Games opening ceremony.
However, many noticed that the flame was actually glowing and not blazing.
The Olympic cauldron tethered to a hot-air balloon in the Tuileries garden became one of the hottest tickets at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and it was all a lie.
Fossil fuels have traditionally powered the Olympic flame, but things have changed in a major way.
The Paris Olympics flame is not a flame at all.
For the many thousands that took issue with a certain performance during the opening ceremony, many more hated the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.
Click on ‘Follow Us’ and get notified of the most viral Olympics stories via Google! Follow Us
After a long procession of French athletes carried the flame from the Seine River through the Jardin des Tuileries beside the Louvre, Marie-José Pérec, and Teddy Riner passed the flame from torch to cauldron.
Fans couldnt believe it:
The City of Lights truly lived up to its name.
What Exactly Is The Paris Olympics Flame Made Of?
The Olympics flame is an electric combination of light and water vapor that only seems to be a flame.
The Telegraph reported that forty electrically powered LED spotlights and 200 high-pressure misting nozzles combine “to give a convincing illusion of a traditional flame.”
It even “flickers like a fire, though as I walked alongside it, I felt a spray of cool mist on my legs,” writes Andrew Keh in the New York Times.
“We wanted the cauldron to use a new technology in order to not produce too many emissions,” says Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee. “We wanted to bring together something spectacular and environmental responsibility at the same time.” The result is “an environmentally sound Olympic water-based ‘flame,’ which is safe for anyone to touch,” per the Telegraph. It’s “made of light and water, like a cool oasis in the heart of summer,” designer Mathieu Lehanneur says in a statement.
When the hot air balloon-shaped cauldron is lifted nearly 200 feet into the air every night during the Games, it can be seen throughout Paris and beyond.
To witness the spectacle, 10,000 people per day were able to book spots to get up close before its daily flight. Those spots were quickly filled.
