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VIDEO – Paris 2024: this is what the Olympic and Paralympic torches look like


The Olympic and Paralympic torches of the Olympic Games were presented on Tuesday, July 25, at the Paris 2024 headquarters.

The rounded steel object was designed by Mathieu Lehanner and manufactured by ArcelorMittal.

Paris 2024 values ​​messenger. One year and one day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Olympic and Paralympic relay torch was unveiled on Tuesday, July 25, during a press conference at the Paris 2024 headquarters in Saint-Denis. Designed by French designer Mathieu Lehanner, it will be used to transport the flame that will burn from Olympia to Paris via Marseille from 16 April to 26 July 2024, the day the big cauldron of the Paris edition is lit.

The object, 70 cm long and weighing 1.5 kg, is made of champagne-coloured steel produced, cast and machined by ArcelorMittal in its French factories. Traditionally flared in shape, this torch is paired with a polished steel bottom and a sandblasted steel top, tightened, slightly elongated, finished with a “high tech” finish.

“For the first time in its history, it is absolutely symmetrical”its creator explained that it allows “highlight the flame”. “Many times when you talk to people, they think of the Olympic rings and the torch”supported the President of the Organizing Committee of Paris 2024 (Cojop) Tony Estanguet.

“Equality, Water and Peace”

To reflect the next Games, Mathieu Lehanner drew inspiration from the three markers of Paris 2024: equality, water and appeasement. Its perfect symmetry promotes equality, giving an equal footing to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, where for the first time as many women as men will compete.

Water across the Seine, the basis of the Parisian edition, inspired the creation of wave, relief and vibration effects that reproduce the waves and movements of water, as well as the reflections of light on its surface. With its gentle curves and curves, the environmentally friendly torch conveys a message of peace, generosity and brotherhood, the values ​​of Olympism.

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two thousand copies “recycled steel”, 1500 for the Olympic Games and 500 for the Paralympic Games, will be made between Châteauneuf (Loire), Florenge and Voippy (Moselle). They will be reused several times during the torch relay, which starts on April 16, 2024 from ancient Olympia. The torch will arrive in France via Marseille, formerly known as Massalia, a Greek colony founded by the Phocians around 600 BC. e. Traveling 12,000 kilometers across mainland France and beyond, the torch will reach Paris to light the Olympic cauldron on July 26, 2024.


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