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The London Oympic cauldron has been extinguished and the flame has been transferred to a lantern as the eight-metre high structure has been moved to a different part of the Olympic Stadium, LOCOG has confirmed. According to The Telegraph, the flame, which is a symbol of the Olympics that is supposed to burn during the Games, ‘went out’ in the stadium on Sunday evening. Olympic organizers have now confirmed that it was extinguished to allow staff to move the cauldron to another part. The revelation that the flame had to be extinguished in order to move the cauldron will add to the controversy over the location of the flame. Critics have said it should have been placed where spectators who did not have tickets to the main stadium would see it. Jackie Brock-Doyle, director of communications for the London Olympics organisers, said: “The cauldron has been put out while we move it to another part of the stadium.” She added that the flame would be kept burning in a lantern used during the torch relay until the cauldron was relit later on Monday.

London Olympic flame ‘went out’ as cauldron relocated