The Games flame rises again in Paris — but it’s no longer ‘Olympic’

Raluca Maniță

(12 Jun 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Paris – 12 June 2025 1. Close of the Olympic cauldron balloon 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Javier Smith, tourist from Texas: “Beautiful, and the place where it’s going to be, or is sitting now, it’s beautiful. All these beautiful buildings, the Louvre, all that is fantastic.” 3. Girl sitting on a chair in the Tuileries Garden, cauldron balloon in background 4. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Broéze, Parisian architect: “It’s one of those monuments in