Paris 2024: the Olympic cauldron will disappear from the Tuileries, dismantling has begun

This Saturday, September 14, the French were enjoying the atmosphere of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games for the last time, celebrating their champions on the Champs-Elysées. But these are well and truly over, and we must return to normal life, with the Olympic venues slowly disappearing from the landscape. The Olympic cauldron, which enchanted tourists and Parisians for many weeks, must also disappear from the Jardin des Tuileries, for the time being at least.

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It began to be dismantled on Sunday, after its last flight, and should leave the site completely in five days' time, by which time almost all the balloon's helium - 6000m3 - will have been sucked out! Although the cauldron will never again receive an Olympic or Paralympic flame , it could return in another version. No official decision has yet been taken, but many people want to see it stay.

Its designer, Mathieu Lehanneur, had indicated on BFMTV that he was in favor of its continuation, on condition that it continued to fly regularly. Except that this would require a certain amount of logistics, since some twenty people would have to be involved in getting it up in the air every evening, and"authorization to fly would have to be requested from the civil aviation authorities". To be continued!

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