Olympic athletics champion Marie-José Pérec and judo great Teddy Riner lit the Olympic cauldron for the Paris Olympics, at the bottom of a hot air balloon which then rose to the sky. Their torches were lit after a final part of the torch relay which started at Trocadéro where French president Emmanuel Marcron had earlier opened the Games. Final torch bearers started with football great Zinedine Zidane, who handed it to Spain’s 14-time French Open tennis champion Rafael Nadal who took it onto a boat to bring it to the Louvre along with former American tennis star Serena Williams, with gymnastic…