Living up to its moniker the “City of Lights,” Paris shimmered through heavy rain on Friday evening as the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony took place for the first time outside of a stadium. But while light shows, pyrotechnics and live performances along the river Seine dazzled, including artist Céline Dion paying homage to songbird Edith Piaf from atop the Eiffel Tower, one thing that stole the show was perhaps the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. A tradition of the Games since the 1928 Olympiad in Amsterdam, how the Olympic flame was lit was unique to this year’s event, much like the re…