Olympic rings on display at the Eiffel Tower 50 days before the start of the Games

One of the main attractions of Paris, the iconic Torre Eiffelwoke up this Friday with the five Olympic rings, and thus indicate that There are 50 days left until the start of the Olympic GamesThe idea is that every night I can offer a particular lighting to this structure for the enjoyment of the general public.

The Olympic rings were presented by the President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee (COJO), Tony Estanguet, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the French Minister of Sport, Amélie Oudéa Castéra, They were located between the first and second floors on the south side of the Eiffel Tower, Efe highlights.

Through a statement, Estanguet said that these rings have been baptized as the “Spectaculars“and it was hard to do anything more spectacular than placing them on the Eiffel Tower.

“The Eiffel Tower is Paris, it is France. We wanted to create an image that everyone might remember.“, he stressed.

This structure has more than 100 thousand LED lights, and each of these rings measures 29 meters long by 13 meters high. They represent the five continents and will illuminate Paris in the coming weeks.

During the day, they will display the Olympic colours (blue, yellow, black, green and red) and at night they will have white lights for better visibility, the COJO explained this week.

The iconic symbol is made up of pieces that weigh a total of 30 tons.

These intertwined rings embody Olympism and its values ​​and form one of the most recognizable emblems in the world.

It must be remembered that The Games will be held from July 26 to August 11 and the medals that will be awarded to the athletes are embedded with hexagonal pieces of iron taken from beams replaced during the renovations of the famous Eiffel Tower, the tallest building in Paris at 330 metres.

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be an unprecedented event, as for the first time in Olympic history it will not be held in a stadium, but in an open urban space, along the course of the River Seine through the centre of Paris.