She has amazed Parisians and tourists for a summer. And it’s far from over. According to our information, the Olympic basin will return to Paris, still in the Tuileries area. The poetics and aerial basin will rise in the sky each summer by 2028, between June 23 (Olympic and paralympic day) and September 14 (National Sports Day). “We complete the funding,” says an actor in the file. “I confirm the project and the now great probability that it will be done,” slips a very close to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
This symbol of the Paris Olympic Games had been dismantled in September, to the chagrin of Parisians. Emmanuel Macron had spoken out to maintain “as long as possible” of the basin, due to the immense popular craze it had aroused. “My wish is that we can keep it as long as possible”, “taking into account the technical elements,” he said. In August 2024, the former Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castera spoke of a legal constraint relating to the maintenance of the emblem of the games. “We want to preserve an architectural alignment along the Champs-Elysées, to the Pyramid of the Louvre,” she slipped to L’Express.
Federating emblem of these games, this “100 % electric” flame designed by EDF and designed by Mathieu Lehanneur is actually a set of lights projected on a “cloud of water”. It pays tribute to the first flight in gas balloon inflated with hydrogen, which took place in 1783 in the Tuileries garden. Its popular success was immediate. Since the end of July, nearly 270,000 people have reserved a free ticket to admire the illuminated balloon up in the sky. The figure promises to increase over the years.