Olympic Balloon To Rise Again In Paris

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The 2024 Olympics’ giant balloon will rise once more, according to organizers, who anticipate that it will once again draw crowds of tourists.

Every day at sunset, thousands of people flocked to the seven-meter (23 feet) wide ring of electric fire above the Tuileries garden. The Olympic cauldron, attached to a balloon, flew above the Tuileries garden.

The cauldron’s designer, Mathieu Lehanneur, claimed that the cauldron’s design “had been thought up for the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

All of the technical details needed to be looked at, he told AFP on Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron “decided to bring it back.”

Lehanneur expressed his relief at the return of the Olympic balloon in a statement.

On June 19, 2025, pedestrians in Paris pass by the Olympic Cauldron at the Tuileries Garden during a hot summer afternoon. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON/AFP)

He claimed that the worst scenario would have been when this memory turned into a sitting relic that couldn’t fly anymore.

The Fête de la Musique, France’s annual street music festival, will take place on Saturday evening in the skies of France.

The balloon will be in the air from September 14 through September 14, a custom that will continue until the Los Angeles Games in 2028.

Lehanneur remarked that in order to revive it, “we needed to make sure it changed as little as possible and that everything that did change was invisible.”

The upgraded balloon adheres to “the same technical principles” as its predecessor, according to EDF’s director of innovation, Julien Villeret. The balloon has a decarbonated fire that has been patented by French energy giant EDF.

According to Villeret, the improved attraction “will last ten times longer” and be able to operate for “300 days instead of 30”.

On June 12, 2025, the Olympic cauldron is visible at Paris’ Tuileries Garden. From June 21 through September 14 until the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the cauldron will rise in the evening. (Photo by Yoan VALAT/POOL/AFP)

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He claimed that the balloon’s creators also strengthened the light-and-mist system, which “makes the flames dance.”

A machine room beneath the cauldron houses cables, a compressor, and a hydro-electric winch.

According to Jerome Giacomoni, president of the Aerophile organization that built the balloon, that system will “hold back the helium balloon when it rises and pull it down when it descends.”

The Olympic balloon, which is made up of 6,200 m3 of lighter than air helium, will be able to lift cauldron, cables, and other components, he said.

On June 12, 2025, the reinstallation of the 2024 Olympic cauldron is visible close to a temporary stage structure that was constructed to house the France Music Week closing concert on June 21, 2025. The reinstalled Olympic cauldron will perform at a concert in the Tuileries on June 21, 2025, and it will remain there nightly until September 14 if conditions permit. It will do so during a performance of France’s “Fete de la Musique.” (Photo: Christophe DELATTRE/AFP)

French inventor Jacques Charles flew in his first gas balloon on December 1, 1783, according to Giacomoni in the Tuileries Garden.

He made it possible for the renowned Montgolfier brothers to launch a similar balloon into the sky with humans aboard just nine days earlier.

The vasqueparis2024 website. The modern-day balloon’s rise times will be displayed in French and to indicate any potential cancellations as a result of weather conditions.