PARIS (Reuters) – The Olympic flame will stay grounded near the Louvre Museum on Tuesday following a thunderstorm alert on Paris, organisers told Reuters. The cauldron carrying the flame is usually scheduled to go up in the air every night from sunset until 2 am. Meteo France on Tuesday issued a orange warning for thunderstorms […]
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PARIS (Reuters) – The Olympic flame will stay grounded near the Louvre Museum on Tuesday following a thunderstorm alert on Paris, organisers told Reuters.
The cauldron carrying the flame is usually scheduled to go up in the air every night from sunset until 2 am.
Meteo France on Tuesday issued a orange warning for thunderstorms on Paris.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; editing by Pritha Sarkar)