(FILES) Visitors gather in front of the Olympic cauldron, an air balloon, lit with the Olympic flame in Paris on July 30, 2024. French president Emmanuel Macron announced on January 31, 2025 that the Olympic cauldron, star of the Paris Olympics with its 30-meter high helium balloon, would return to Paris "every summer" until the next Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028. (Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images)