A year after it captivated crowds during the Paris Olympics, a centerpiece of the summer Games made a comeback Saturday to light up the French capital's skyline. The iconic helium-powered balloon that ...

Olympic athletics champion Marie-José Pérec and judo great Teddy Riner lit the Olympic cauldron for the Paris Olympics, at the bottom of a hot air balloon which then rose to the sky. Their torches ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday that the cauldron balloon, one of the Paris Olympics ' most admired attractions, would float in the skies over the French capital every summer until ...

The flight of a dramatic hot air balloon cauldron at the Paris 2024 Olympics capped off an ambitious Opening Ceremony along the Seine River and marked the first time that the cauldron was ever sent ...

PARIS — After a spectacular Opening Ceremony on the River Seine, Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner lit the Olympic cauldron to officially inaugurate the 2024 Games here on Friday. And it wasn’t just ...