As Britain's Daily Mail reports, Playfoot was a torchbearer before the 1948 London Games. ![]() Organizers say the Olympic flame - which was brought from Greece in a 70-day procession that covered 8,000 miles - was kept alive in a lantern while the move took place.Īnd while seven young and fairly unknown athletes surprised many when they - and not an illustrious sports star - lit the cauldron Friday night, the job of relighting the cauldron fell to Austin Playfoot, 82, who was raised by construction workers' cherry-picker to perform the task. The 204 tulip-shaped copper pots and the pipes that feed them went dark around 9 p.m. Just when the discussion over the London Olympics' opening ceremony was finally being overshadowed by actual sporting events at the Summer Games, news emerges Monday that the Olympic cauldron was extinguished Sunday night, so it could be moved.
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