The Olympic flame that wowed the world at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony in a floating cauldron is not real but in fact 100 per cent electric, organisers have revealed. The 'fake' flame is ...

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PARIS (Reuters) - The Olympic flame will stay grounded near the Louvre Museum on Tuesday following a thunderstorm alert on Paris, organisers told Reuters. The cauldron carrying the flame is ...

Two months after the flame went out on the glittering Paris Olympics and Paralympics, the French capital is in the grip of a ...

until the handover to Paris Games organizers in Athens on April 26. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the flame lighting combined “a pilgrimage to our past in ancient ...

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Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight ... French football hero Zidane in a unifying twist to the flame's path to Paris.

Paris (AFP) – Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost its Olympic rings. Two months after the flame went out on ...

Instead of natural gas for the Olympic flame, Paris went with another option to meet its sustainability goals. Here's what it's made of. In the summer, global warming fuels extreme heat and storms ...