The Permanent Vancouver 2010 Olympic Cauldron Burning Brightly in Jack Poole Plaza at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Even though I knew this cauldron would be lit at the end of the Opening Ceremony (checked earlier in the day), I didn't expect torchbearer Wayne Gretzky to leave in a pickup truck (have a blurred picture of him on Beatty) and head down to the Vancouver Convention Centre. Started running from BC Place and when I got there drunken kids looked like they were about to storm the security fences. But in the end, they contented themselves with loudly singing O Canada over and over again. Met one guy on the way running down Robson to BC Place shouting, "Gretzky, Gretzky, where did he go?"

Apparently this is a permanent installation. Even though we can't get close to it during the Games for security reasons, it will be in the centre of the Jack Poole Mall "forever and ever".

However, the flames will be extinguished at the end of the Games to be re-lit for the Paralympics and for special occasions like Canada Day.

In late March, construction started on a reflecting pool containing a map that traces the route of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay that will surround the cauldron.

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Taken on: February 12, 2010

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