Olympic Flamekeepers

After the torch festivities had concluded for the evening, it was time to extinguish the cauldron. However, the flame itself must be kept to finish its travels across Canada and arrive in Vancouver to light the cauldron there on February 12,2010! No simple feat mind you as the flame left Greece months ago and has travelled by land, air, and water to even make it this far!







As it was explained, this evening, 2 aboriginal Canadians will capture the flame from the cauldron and place it in a lantern, and keep watch over the flame all evening, until the next morning when it will light the torch of another Canadian as it prepares to leave Windsor. I was very excited to be in the very front row by this point to experience something so interesting!

Success, as soon as the flame in the lantern was stable, the flame in the cauldron was extinguished. You can see in the close up its just an itty bitty flame.