Olympic rings mounted on Eiffel Tower with 50 days to go till Paris Games | EUROtoday

Issued on: 07/06/2024 – 11:49

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The construction of rings, manufactured from recycled French metal, can be displayed on the south aspect of the 135-year-old landmark in central Paris, overlooking the Seine River. Each ring is 9 meters (30 toes) in diameter.

Thousands of athletes will parade via the guts of the French capital on boats on the Seine alongside a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) route within the opening ceremony at sundown on July 26.

There can be no scarcity of iconic venues on the Paris Olympics.

The tower, nicknamed La Dame de Fer (The Iron Lady), will characteristic prominently within the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Games and the next Paralympics.

Men’s and ladies’s volleyball gamers will compete on the foot of the 330-meter (1,083-foot) monument. They can be watched by almost 13,000 followers on the non permanent Eiffel Tower Stadium on the close by Champ de Mars, the place Parisians and vacationers prefer to have picnics on the grass or watch July 14 firework shows.

The Olympic and Paralympic medals in Paris are being embedded with items from a hexagonal chunk of iron taken from the tower.

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The massively well-liked landmark in central Paris has seen hovering customer numbers within the leadup to the 2024 Games.

Cranes for the rings

Two large cranes had been used in a single day Friday to carry the 30—ton construction and mount it between the primary and second flooring of the tower.

The Olympic rings can be illuminated each evening with 100,000 LED bulbs via the Paralympic Games that begin Aug. 28, 17 days after the Olympics’ closing ceremony.

The Paralympics will deliver collectively 4,400 athletes from 180 international locations in 549 occasions and 22 sports activities. Many sports activities will happen close to landmarks together with the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Grand Palais.

(AP)