#Olympic Cauldron

[sedlex]

Waaait, is that a hot air balloon?

It is!

And does it perchance fly?

It does!

[verypersonalscreencaps]

A few beautiful and poetic photos of the Olympic Cauldron in the sky of Paris (July, 2024) 💙🤍❤️

[thepastisalreadywritten]

PARIS 2024: Moon, Sunset, Eiffel Tower, Olympic Rings, and Olympic Cauldron

2024 Paris Olympic Games

July 26, 2024 – August 11, 2024

[msfangirlgonewild]

SEEING THE FLAME ONE MORE TIME THE PARIS OLYMPICS COME TO AN END

MERCI, PARIS🇫🇷

[fpacini]

[epicgnome23]

The Olympic Cauldron in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games:

[rabbitcruiser]

Public Art, Vancouver (No. 2)

The Angel of Victory (French: L'Ange de la Victoire) is a statue crafted by London-born sculptor Coeur de Lion McCarthy (1881–1979), installed in Montreal's Windsor Station, in Quebec, Canada.

It was commissioned in 1922 in memory of the 1,116 Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees who died in World War I. Copies of the statue were also installed at CPR stations in Vancouver and Winnipeg, Canada. The Winnipeg copy has since been moved from the station, and is now located outside the Deer Lodge Hospital.

The bronze, seven foot tall statue shows a fallen soldier being carried up to heaven by a female angel. It is on a pedestal inscribed:

To Commemorate Those in the Service of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company Who at the Call of King and Country, Left All That Was Dear to Them, Endured Hardship, Faced Danger and Finally Passed Out of Sight of Men by the Path of Duty and Self Sacrifice, Giving Up Their Own Lives That Others May Live in Freedom. Let Those Who Come After See to It That Their Names Are Not Forgotten. / 1914–1918

After World War II, the years 1939–1945 were added to the inscription.

The Vancouver copy of the statue was used in a piece by Canadian street artist Richard Hambleton, who had instructed that it be released only after his death, in 2017. Created in 1974, the piece depicts the young artist in place of the fallen soldier, his body pierced by paintbrushes.

Source: Wikipedia

[aspirateur-killeuse]

La vasque olympique, dimanche 4 août 2024

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The Olympic cauldron, Sunday 4th August 2024

[gregdotorg]

Ah Paris, the City of Lights, the City of Love, the City of Balloons, and the City of Lighted Balloons I Love.

[sedlex]

Ok, but somebody go catch this giant flying fire hazard and secure it, it's making me anxious.

[mintiestcrystal]

The cauldron. was not lit.

There is no fire. The games are invalid.

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[thepastisalreadywritten]

OLYMPIC CAULDRON AS A HOT AIR BALLOON!

The Olympic cauldron, designed as a blazing hot air balloon, has been lit.

This marks the official start of the Paris 2024 Olympics! 🎈🔥

[seldnei]

@gusilux

Spoofing the elements

(Added this info/link to the earlier post, but thinking that it’s cool enough to deserve its own...)

For those of you concerned about this being some kind of disaster waiting to happen… turns out the cauldron’s flame isn’t actually fire, but two other elements: air and water. It’s pressurized water vapor “steam” illuminated by LEDs

Organisers say during the day, the cauldron will be on the ground in the city’s Tuilleries Gardens but during the evening, it will be tethered in place and raised 30 m into the air. …The ring at the base of the balloon houses 40 LED lights which illuminate a cloud of water vapour produced by 200 high-pressure misting nozzles to give the flickering and smoke effect of real flames. “Light, magical and unifying, it will be a beacon in the night and a sun within reach during the day. The fire that burns in it will be made of light and water, like a cool oasis in the heart of summer.”

More details here at Euronews.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

now they just have a random selection of athletes on a boat down the seine with the torch..... the commentators have no idea what is happening and it seems like the athletes don't either. i love this so much

[thehoveringbrain]

WAIT

Wait

WAAAIT

WHAT'S EXACTLY THE PLAN HERE???

[pantalaiimon]

Sparkly 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Eiffel Tower from my balcony ✨