Paris's Olympic Balloon Cauldron Continues Nightly Flights Two Years After Games

Two years after the Paris Olympics concluded, the city's iconic balloon-suspended cauldron continues its nightly ascent into the summer sky — an unscripted act of remembrance that blurs the line between monument and living tradition. Most Olympic symbols are designed to be temporary, built for a moment and then released to memory; this one has refused that fate. In staying aloft, it poses a quiet question that every host city must eventually answer: what does a city owe to the moments that briefly made it the center of the world?