2024-09-15 12:03:40
One last flight to the basin. The symbol of summer on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the program takes place for the last time from the Tuileries garden (1st arrondissement of Paris) this Saturday to close the “Parade of Champions”, the last celebration of Paris 2024 Next by an accordion cover of “La Foule”, the song by Edith Piaf.
On July 26, Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec, the last torchbearers, ignited a large ring of fire in the basin. The hot air bubble then went to the sky of Paris, just before the performance of Céline Dion “song to love”. Then, every evening during the Olympics and Paras it leaves the floor for a great show that is very popular with everyone.
“If we want to preserve the basin, we will have to preserve it”
For two weeks, a large number of people welcome the program from 11 am to 7 pm for fifteen minutes. The structure is 30 m high with a fire ring 7 m in diameter. During flight, it is about 60 m above the ground. At the end of the closing ceremony of the Games, the cauldron is turned back on at the beginning of the Paralympic Games, on August 28. All of them with different disabilities, Alexis Hanquinquant, Nantenin Keïta, Charles-Antoine Kouakou, Élodie Lorandi and Fabien Lamirault shine together.
“The basin is there. Will he fly away? You have to stay connected. You will see. The thing seems to be very simple, but it is not, technically. If we want to preserve the basin, we have to preserve it. I want you to stay, but live. I don’t want it to become something like a relic, “reacted Mathieu Lehanneur, its designer, to France 2. If it seems clear that it will not stay in the Tuileries, we should know more about its -future in the days to come.
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