the Eiffel Tower is adorned with the Olympic rings | EUROtoday

Published on : 07/06/2024 – 10:53Modified : 07/06/2024 – 11:41

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The magic of the Games takes maintain of the host metropolis. Less than 50 days earlier than the Paris Olympic Games, the 5 rings have been held on the evening of Thursday June 6 to Friday June 7 on the Eiffel Tower utilizing a number of cranes and a group of rope entry technicians.

These thirty tons of metal, made by Arcelor Mittal, arrived in items, and have been assembled this week earlier than being hoisted in a single day between the primary and second flooring of the monument image of Paris.

These rings – 29 meters lengthy and 13 meters excessive – shall be lit in white each evening, and embody 100,000 LEDs, the Olympic organizing committee defined this week.

They are hooked up to probably the most strong parts of the Eiffel Tower, Alain Dumas, technical director of the Eiffel Tower Operating Company, defined to the press. Around fifteen rope entry technicians took half within the rigging operation, in addition to a number of cranes.

Tests and research have been carried out for a lot of months to hold out this operation, defined Pierre Engel, engineer at Arcelor-Mittal.

“It will be one of the images of the Games,” predicts Thierry Reboul, director of occasions and ceremonies of the Paris Olympic organizing committee, referring to those 5 rings of 9 meters in diameter which can look in the direction of the Trocadéro.

On Wednesday morning, the Olympic rings have been additionally hoisted on the pediment of the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), through which the Olympic swimming occasions will happen. This is the one tools to have the rings, apart from the rings on the Georges-Vallerey swimming pool in Paris, web site of the 1924 Olympics and coaching web site this summer time.

With AFP