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It's not true that there never has been more than one cauldron in Olympic Summer Games. Helsinki had two cauldrons, one inside the Olympic Stadium and one on top of the tower next to the Olympic Stadium. They were lit almost simultaneously by Paavo Nurmi and Hannes Kolehmainen.
Furthermore, if one wanted to be pedantic, one should mention that there are often secondary cauldrons at more remote venues. Beijing for example had cauldrons in Qingdao (where the sailing took place) and at the equestrian venue in Hong Kong. Munich had secondary cauldrons in Kiel-Schilksee (sailing venue) and, I believe, also in Augsburg (whitewater canoe venue).
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In Topic: London 2012 Olympic Cauldron...
Yesterday, 04:39 PM
A cauldron beside or even behind one of the TV screens? That's not going to happen -- then they couldn't use the TV screen anymore. And they definitely need two screens in the stadium, one for the TV pictures and the other for the scoreboard. Additionally, the roof is above the TV screens respectively it's almost above the area in front of the TV screens. So an extendable cauldron would get in the way of the roof. Or, to use the old Vancouver horror scenario, it would burn it. 
In Topic: ESC 2012 - 1st Semi Final - Live Chat
Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Lee, on 22 May 2012 - 04:08 PM, said:
Yes, it's a song contest, not cutest granny contest.
Yes, but we all know that not always the best song won in ESC history.
