KINGSTON, Jamaica — A blog on Yahoo.com has sought to shed light on events that unfolded after the Olympic Cauldron was lit in fanfare at last week’s opening ceremony.Ever wonder what happens when the Olympic flame dies?

“The carrying of the Olympic flame always comes with plenty of pomp and circumstance, but once the massive Olympic Cauldron is lit, people take for granted that it remains ablaze until the Games come to an end.

Not so.

In a rare occurrence, the cauldron at the 2012 London Games has been deliberately put out in order to relocate the massive structure to another part of the stadium, at which point it was relit “in a rather casual way” the article states.

According to the Yahoo story, Olympic organisers moved the flame to a holding lantern while the cauldron was put out and relocated.

“Once the move was complete, rather than make a big deal out of its lighting once again, the organisers simply grabbed one of the torchbearers, tossed him on a dirty boom lift with a member of the maintenance crew, and had him light it again”.

Initially a team of seven young athletes lit the cauldron at the Olympics opening ceremony last week; but such an event wasn’t staged for the relighting.

This time around a man named Austin Playfoot lit it. Playfoot bore the torch during the flame’s trip to London this year, and also had the honour of being a torchbearer at the 1948 Olympics.

This unscheduled move is just the latest in what has been a rather interesting saga surrounding London’s Olympic flame, which started when one of the torches carrying the flame went out due to a malfunctioning burner on its way through the host country and had to be relit by a backup unit.

The cauldron’s placement then came under harsh criticism due to its position within a stadium, and could only be seen by those with tickets to the opening ceremony.