Olympian2005 Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 hey guys What has been your fave Olympic cauldron? what has been your least favourite? what would you have done differently to a cauldron if you were its designer? My fave cauldron is Barcelona 1992 - I love how they mixed the modern cauldron with the historical stadium and made it look as if it had always been there. My lease fave cauldron is Athens 2004 - i liked the lighting but it just seems very bland, for the home of the Olympics i expected something more If i could redesign a cauldron for sure i would re-do Atlanta 1996 - i would keep the actual caldron as i love the color scroll but i would get rid of the metal tower and replace it with a more stylish modern column similar to the interlocking Turin design. What's y'all's picks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Sydney Athens London are my Top 3. Atlanta and PyeongChang are my Bottom 2. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigVic Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Best: Sydney, Athens, London, Barcelona, SLC Worst: Torino (just a domino of fireworks), Vancouver (fourth arm missing) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomex Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 For me : - Sydney - Beijing - Salt Lake City One thing in my bucket list is too see "all possible" olympic cauldron,I dont know if there is a list of "where exactly you can see them". I already have seen of them : - Sydney (my fav one) - Atlanta - Barcelona - Nagano - Grenoble (I live there!) - Montreal - Athens - Albertville (close to Grenoble) - Lillehammer -Moscow For me : - Sydney - Beijing - Salt Lake City One thing in my bucket list is too see "all possible" olympic cauldron,I dont know if there is a list of "where exactly you can see them". I already have seen of them : - Sydney (my fav one) - Atlanta - Barcelona - Nagano - Grenoble (I live there!) - Montreal - Athens - Albertville (close to Grenoble) - Lillehammer -Moscow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, fantomex said: One thing in my bucket list is too see "all possible" olympic cauldron,I dont know if there is a list of "where exactly you can see them". There is a room in the Museum of London which houses the 2012 cauldron and an exhibition about its design process https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/permanent-galleries/london-2012-cauldron Edited July 30, 2021 by Rob. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Australian Kiwi Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Athens (epic) and London (beautiful) - tie. Cathy Freeman and Muhammad Ali were probably the most "goosebumps". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brekkie Boy Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 I did love the Athens cauldron, and also Salt Lake City. Also liked the classic simple effort of Lillehammer, and Sochi somewhat did that too. London's lighting was spectacular but it loses marks for me just for being out of view for a week and not burning brightly over the city. I'm not a huge fan of the move towards lighting a stadium cauldron as the big symbolic moment and then someone lighting the main cauldron elsewhere in the city with no questions asked. Hopefully as cleaner energy is used to fire the flame we can see some kind of compromise which sees us return to the classic cauldron shining over the stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 I dont like any cauldron that goes AWOL during the Games, or is hidden in one venue.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, Olympics2028 said: ^ That's why the Olympics seem to be increasingly clones or variations of one another. I didn't realize how many of them involve cross-boundary work and inter-country consulting. Even going back to the 1960s. Also, because of torchsydney pointing out the 1952 games in Helsinki, I now realize that decisionmaking by organizing committees that make me go "huh?!" dates back way longer too. Okay, a question here. What are you referring too as “decision-making” by Helsinki. Helsinki was in the pre-TV era of simple ceremonies. It was pretty straightforward - Finland’s then most famous athlete brought the torch in and lit a cauldron in the stadium, and then four relay runners took the flame to the top of a tower to light a cauldron above the stadium. Nothing too novel in that. And you have to remember, this was only about the third torch relay ever - they were an innovation from 1936. What makes you go “huh?” Oh, and a protester interrupted a speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FerdinandBahr Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 On 8/17/2021 at 4:03 PM, Brekkie Boy said: I did love the Athens cauldron, and also Salt Lake City. Also liked the classic simple effort of Lillehammer, and Sochi somewhat did that too. London's lighting was spectacular but it loses marks for me just for being out of view for a week and not burning brightly over the city. I'm not a huge fan of the move towards lighting a stadium cauldron as the big symbolic moment and then someone lighting the main cauldron elsewhere in the city with no questions asked. Hopefully as cleaner energy is used to fire the flame we can see some kind of compromise which sees us return to the classic cauldron shining over the stadium. I agree with you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FerdinandBahr Posted September 2, 2022 Report Share Posted September 2, 2022 On 8/26/2022 at 11:29 AM, andyadams222 said: i would keep the actual caldron as i love the color scroll but i would get rid of the metal tower and replace it with a more stylish modern column similar to the interlocking Turin design http://essaypapers.reviews/ seems spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusilli Posted September 3, 2022 Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 Salt Lake's looked particularly iconic and perfectly fitting with its own look of the games. And Athens' as well. No memories of the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 22 years ago today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 22 years since Sydney and less than 10 years to Brisbane...crazy! That was the best night of my life....had a seat right at the front above the Royal Box...remember every minute including passing Muhammad Ali in the queue to go in! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 3 hours ago, TorchbearerSydney said: 22 years since Sydney and less than 10 years to Brisbane...crazy! That was the best night of my life....had a seat right at the front above the Royal Box...remember every minute including passing Muhammad Ali in the queue to go in! Same. I was high above the athletes entrance and could feel the rising heat of the flames. A truly magical astounding night that I will never ever forget. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 … and that was after the amazing Opening Ceremony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 My first Olympic memory... wouldn't be a stretch to say almost all my interest in the Olympics, the surroundings of the Games, what makes them special, dates back to that autumn morning, the scale of the ceremony and the spectacle, and the excitement of seeing my first Parade of Nations and learning about the countries of the world. I probably learned more on September 15 2000 than any other day 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigVic Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 1 hour ago, yoshi said: My first Olympic memory... wouldn't be a stretch to say almost all my interest in the Olympics, the surroundings of the Games, what makes them special, dates back to that autumn morning, the scale of the ceremony and the spectacle, and the excitement of seeing my first Parade of Nations and learning about the countries of the world. I probably learned more on September 15 2000 than any other day The cauldron stalled for 4 mins in front of more than 3 billion viewers worldwide and 6 million watching on Channel 7 in Australia. A flawless and spectacular Opening Ceremony coming close to disaster. Vancouver a decade later had the fourth arm supposed to be lit be Le May Doan fail to rise in another cauldron mishap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Yeah? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulu Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Is a traditional torch really that unsustainable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomex Posted October 23, 2023 Report Share Posted October 23, 2023 Hello Everybody, sorry to dig that topic, but I have an (important) question for which I'm not able to find an aswer. As a chasing Olympics game cauldron, I would like to know something about the Seoul 88 one. Indeed, I'm going to South Korea in 2024 and I would like to see the Seoul 88 cauldron, but apparently it's INSIDE the olympic stadium, and I don't know how to enter in or how to find any event here. Do you know if we can "visit" the stadium ? Or if the cauldron is indeed still inside with no possibility to see from outside ? Thanks in advace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted October 23, 2023 Report Share Posted October 23, 2023 4 hours ago, fantomex said: Hello Everybody, sorry to dig that topic, but I have an (important) question for which I'm not able to find an aswer. As a chasing Olympics game cauldron, I would like to know something about the Seoul 88 one. Indeed, I'm going to South Korea in 2024 and I would like to see the Seoul 88 cauldron, but apparently it's INSIDE the olympic stadium, and I don't know how to enter in or how to find any event here. Do you know if we can "visit" the stadium ? Or if the cauldron is indeed still inside with no possibility to see from outside ? Thanks in advace. I'd suggest get in touch with the Korean Olympic Committee. They would probably be bi-lingual and would be most sympathetic to your request. If not -- and I take it you are from Mexico, get in touch with the Cultural Attache of your Embassy in Seoul. Maybe they can put in a request for you. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 19 hours ago, fantomex said: Hello Everybody, sorry to dig that topic, but I have an (important) question for which I'm not able to find an aswer. As a chasing Olympics game cauldron, I would like to know something about the Seoul 88 one. Indeed, I'm going to South Korea in 2024 and I would like to see the Seoul 88 cauldron, but apparently it's INSIDE the olympic stadium, and I don't know how to enter in or how to find any event here. Do you know if we can "visit" the stadium ? Or if the cauldron is indeed still inside with no possibility to see from outside ? Thanks in advace. Address 25, Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul 서울특별시 송파구 올림픽로 25 Inquiries • 1330 Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese) • For more info: +82-2-2240-8800 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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