Plenty of traditions will take place before the 2024 Olympics get underway. None, though, are as symbolic as lighting the Olympic cauldron. Every two years, host nations put on an immersive ceremony ...

Frenchman Charles Coste, a 1948 Olympic track cycling gold medalist and the oldest living Olympic champion, has died at age ...

Aug. 5 (UPI) --At the conclusion of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, French athletes Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner lit the Olympic cauldron, a ring of fire that floated into the night sky on a ...

Charles Coste, the world's oldest living Olympian and a cycling champion, has died. He was 101. The French presidency said in ...

Could the luminous Olympic cauldron, a nod to French aviation history from French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, become a permanent fixture in the city of Paris? The city’s mayor is hoping to make it ...

PARIS — The night the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron first flew over Paris, its designer Mathieu Lehanneur held his breath: Nothing could go wrong. The balloon, lit by the Olympic torch and set off ...

Paris — 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 ...

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 ...