Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times It flickers like a fire, but the ... like a gigantic hot-air balloon that will rise into the air every night of the Games. Pool photo by Geoffroy Van ...

For the first time in the history of the Games, the cauldron - a 7m (23-feet) diameter ring of fire supported by a giant air balloon - flew through the air. His idea, inspired by the ancient Greek ...

Olympic balloon 'to return every summer' to Paris ... by LED rays that organisers described as environmentally-friendly fire. The helium balloon would then take the cauldron 30 metres (98 feet ...

But there is a long history of unusual events being held at the Olympic Games of the past. Just ask a hot air balloon aficionado. Live pigeon shooting may be the "weirdest and most bizarre Olympic ...

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