LUIS TATO/AFP via Gett This year's Olympic cauldron is grandiose — but not quite flaming. As the French and tourists have flocked to the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris to see the spectacular ...

The iconic sign of the games will take off into the sky every night, landing again at 2 a.m., for the length of the Paris Olympics. But it's tethered to the ground the whole time. CNET editor Gael ...

The Olympic cauldron was officially lit by the Olympic flame from the torch carried by several athletes. The cauldron, which was also a hot air balloon, lifted into the Paris night sky.

PARIS — The Paris Olympics cauldron is a ring of fire carried by a hot-air balloon. Instead of the usual ground-bound cauldron used at most Summer and Winter Games, the special edition for the ...

The Olympic cauldron rising over Paris beneath a huge balloon each night has become such a popular sight that it may become a permanent fixture in the City of Light. The unique version of the ...

Each and every day and night. Thousands more travel here to the Louver to watch *** spectacle in and of itself the cauldron every single night as the sun sets in the past, we've seen Ali do it.

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 ...

PARIS — The identity of the person who would light the Olympic cauldron for the Paris Games on Friday night (spoiler alert: Marie-José Pérec and Teddy Riner) was ...