A green medal for Paris?
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Olympics are ending Sunday, but let's talk about how they started real quick. |
| 0:04.0 | They started the way every Olympic starts with the torch. |
| 0:07.0 | Some 10,000 people, athletes, a pastry chef, Sacramento, Snoop Dog, they all carried the torch across France and as always during the opening ceremony |
| 0:16.0 | it all culminated in the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. |
| 0:20.0 | Except this time they didn't actually light the Olympic cauldron. |
| 0:25.6 | The Paris 2024 Olympic cauldron is literally smoke and mirrors. |
| 0:29.3 | Instead of a burning flame, we get mist and light that appears to lift up a hot air balloon. The idea |
| 0:36.0 | was to do the cauldron without pollution because Paris was trying to have the |
| 0:40.5 | greenest games ever. They wanted to cut the carbon footprint of London in |
| 0:45.0 | 2012 and Rio in 2016 by 50%. On today explained, we're going to see how they did. I'm Kevin O'Leary. |
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