Did they just send the Olympic cauldron up into the Paris skies in a hot-air balloon?
IS the cauldron a hot-air balloon?
Will it just float around there in the sky for two weeks?
If you watched the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you might have those questions and more.
And the balloon itself isn’t a traditional hot-air balloon, although it looks like one.
The flame is 100% electric.
But the Paris ceremony was different in many ways.
So there was no major stadium where the ceremony ended and where a cauldron could be placed and lit.
Then, the Games paid homage to France’s historic hot-air-balloon history.
of France, at the heart of the DNA of Paris 2024."
The 100% electric flame burns no fuel.
The ring of fire uses 40 LED spotlights to illuminate the cloud created by 200 high-pressure misting nozzles.
The Paris Olympics run through Aug. 11.
