00:00If you don't train a lot, if you don't prepare a lot, you have no chance of succeeding.
00:25What an emotion and what a pleasure to finally be in 2024.
00:28We've been waiting for this for so long.
00:30France has met with its history.
00:32It's been 100 years since we welcomed the Summer Olympics.
00:37These are spectacular sports, but they are also committed sports.
00:41Committed means that they must also contribute to the challenges of our society.
00:47Games for the first time in the history of parity.
00:50Games that want to reduce carbon emissions by half.
00:53We decided collectively to go from 10,000 to 12,000 torches
00:59that were produced on the last editions of the Games, to 2,000.
01:09How do I make a breath of Paris?
01:11How do I express equality?
01:13How do I give an idea of calming?
01:16Equality has been converted through a game of symmetry.
01:19We used a principle of symmetry between the top and the bottom of the torch.
01:22It was the first time in its history that it was an absolutely symmetrical torch.
01:25So equality was good.
01:27How do we make Paris appear?
01:29I didn't want to be too inspired by the monuments of Paris,
01:32which are obviously icons, but which are a bit like postcards.
01:35But to make it look like a scene.
01:38The bottom of the torch takes up a kind of water relief.
01:44With Carcel Ormital, who is once again in charge of the manufacture of these 2,000 torches,
01:50they are also built in a rather unprecedented way,
01:54with a green steel, which is really a technology, a remarkable innovation.
02:03You feel when a material has a story.
02:06So the fact that we take a recycled steel, which already has a story,
02:12which may have been a car, and then all of a sudden it has been taken over,
02:15re-melted, re-shaped, and which re-exists differently,
02:20is something that is totally part of the essence of this torch.
02:27We have over 15,000 employees in France,
02:30and the fact that we can make low-carbon steel, make it in France,
02:34roll it, provide it to the Olympics, is just because of all of their hard work.
02:39So it was a kind of choreography, quite beautiful,
02:42between Carcel Ormital, the design teams, Paris 2024.
02:47The whole preparation of this torch was a bit like the Olympics.
02:55I think it's really a torch that will stay, I believe, in the history of games.
02:59In any case, I am very proud that it can be associated with Paris 2024.
03:05To know that steel is art, I think it's a victory, right?
03:09Because people don't think of steel as an object of art, or that it can be used in art.
03:15We were making these incredible torches, we are making the spectaculars,
03:20so you will see how our steel is being used in the most phenomenal way.
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