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Starting on Saturday, July 27, “and every day during the Games, 10,000 more people will be able to get as close as possible to the Olympic cauldron, at a rate of three hundred entries per quarter of an hour,” the organization indicated. Olympic Games Committee 2024 (OCOG) on its website.
“This opening of the Tuileries Garden”, where the pond is located “from 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. , with a limit set at 3,000 people attend simultaneously”, “places it inside the public entrance the day before its inauguration”. Return to the sky of Paris at dusk. “
To get a ticket, you need to access the lavasque. paris2024. org website. Then you have to fill out a form to obtain a QR code, which allows you to access, in the reserved slot, the Tuileries Garden to take a walk and visit the Olympic cauldron. All of this is free.
On the ground during the day, the sink designed by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur will take off every night “at dusk” and “will be visible for many meters to be observed by all eyes,” Paris 2024Array promises.
The designer wanted to “make the object as accessible as possible, as visual as possible, as open as possible,” he explained on Saturday morning. “It is clear that you have to let the air pass through to be able to see or glimpse of it”, “not anywhere in Paris, but almost”.
“The concept of the balloon began to emerge. And then once we get into this concept of the balloon, of the history of the hot air balloon, we realize that, in fact (…) the entire history of balloon inventions took place in France. The first balloon is from 1783. We are five years before the French Revolution. So there we are, we are part of a story,” he explained.
Teddy Riner and Marie-Jo Pérec light the Olympic cauldron together!pic. twitter. com/X4VE3fG95j
For its part, EDF has made this “ring of flames” the symbol of “a more culpable future, that of an electric future”, according to a press release. The flame is truly a “mighty flow of light” projected onto a “cloud. “of water. “” The obvious simplicity of this solution, imaginable thanks to advances in LED technology, hides long working hours. “
It integrates projectors, indicates EDF, which specifies that “water consumption, of the order of 3 cubic meters per hour when the sink is in flight, is reduced to 2 cubic meters when it is on the ground in the Tuileries Garden. ”
The Olympic cauldron “burns” in trompe l’oeil with an innovative formula of mist water (3 m3/hour) and powerful lighting, developed through @EDFofficiel ud83dudd25 pic. twitter. com/TDXjPZPIZV
Made of aluminum, “it answers the challenge of robustness and lightness,” says EDF. Placing the flame ring at a height of 60 meters at night implies “an inevitable requirement for lightness, integrity and protection comparable to that of aeronautical engineering. ” .
For Paris-2024, the torch expresses “by its symmetry a symbol of Equality”, while “the relay cauldron, which represents the natural and circular shape of the ring, symbolises Fraternity”. “All of this is missing Libertad to make the national motto a reality. Between earth and sky, the Paris 2024 Flying Basin is the best incarnation. “