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I loved that pieces of the cauldron were marched in one country at a time with the parade of nations. In fact we noticed the extra person with each country carrying something or other, and were surprised to find out at the end that it was parts of the cauldron.

It just symbolized the "many countries peacefully coming together" theme of the whole Olympic movement so beautifully.

I suspect people at the event were going, "Where's the torch?" To have it arise almost out of nothing must have been almost like magic in the arena.