2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out <small>(00:24–00:38)</small>
### There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (00:24–00:38\)

[thumb\|right\|Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic Cauldron after being lit](/wiki/File:Olympic_Cauldron_after_being_lit_at_the_London_2012_Olympic_Games_Opening_Ceremony.jpg "Olympic Cauldron after being lit at the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.jpg")

This section was named after [the song of the same name](/wiki/There_Is_a_Light_That_Never_Goes_Out "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out") by [The Smiths](/wiki/The_Smiths "The Smiths"). The [motorboat](/wiki/Motorboat "Motorboat") driven by [David Beckham](/wiki/David_Beckham "David Beckham") arrived with the [Olympic Flame](/wiki/Olympic_Flame "Olympic Flame") via the [Limehouse Cut](/wiki/Limehouse_Cut "Limehouse Cut") and the [Lee Navigation](/wiki/Lee_Navigation "Lee Navigation"). [Steve Redgrave](/wiki/Steve_Redgrave "Steve Redgrave") lit his torch from that on the boat, and carried it into the stadium through an honour guard of 500 of the construction workers who had built the [Olympic Park](/wiki/Olympic_Park%2C_London "Olympic Park, London"). He passed the flame on to a team of seven young people, each nominated by a famous British Olympian to convey the Games' aim to 'inspire a generation'. Six of the team were athletes, and the seventh was a volunteer young ambassador.

The teenagers made a lap of the stadium, each carrying the torch in turn, while [Alex Trimble](/wiki/Alex_Trimble "Alex Trimble"), lead singer of [Two Door Cinema Club](/wiki/Two_Door_Cinema_Club "Two Door Cinema Club"), performed "[Caliban's Dream](/wiki/Caliban%27s_Dream "Caliban's Dream")" with the Dockhead Choir, [Only Men Aloud](/wiki/Only_Men_Aloud "Only Men Aloud"), Elizabeth Roberts, and Esme Smith. This had been written especially for the ceremony by [Rick Smith](/wiki/Rick_Smith_%28Underworld%29 "Rick Smith (Underworld)") of [Underworld](/wiki/Underworld_%28band%29 "Underworld (band)").

Each young athlete was greeted by their nominating Olympian (watched by 260 British medallists from previous summer and winter Games since London 1948\) and presented with their own torch, which was then lit from the flame. They jogged through a corridor between assembled athletes to the centre of the stadium, where the 204 copper petals (each inscribed with the name of the team it accompanied during the parade) were now seen in a circular formation attached to long pipes (the petals were to accompany each team home after the competition, as a souvenir). The young athletes lit some of the petals, and when the flame had spread to all of them, the pipes rose slowly from the floor of the stadium and converged to form the cauldron. The cauldron lighters were (*nominator in brackets*):
* Callum Airlie ([Shirley Robertson](/wiki/Shirley_Robertson "Shirley Robertson"))
* Jordan Duckitt ([Duncan Goodhew](/wiki/Duncan_Goodhew "Duncan Goodhew"))
* [Desiree Henry](/wiki/Desiree_Henry "Desiree Henry") ([Daley Thompson](/wiki/Daley_Thompson "Daley Thompson"))
* Katie Kirk ([Mary Peters](/wiki/Mary_Peters_%28athlete%29 "Mary Peters (athlete)"))
* Cameron MacRitchie ([Steve Redgrave](/wiki/Steve_Redgrave "Steve Redgrave"))
* Aidan Reynolds ([Lynn Davies](/wiki/Lynn_Davies "Lynn Davies"))
* [Adelle Tracey](/wiki/Adelle_Tracey "Adelle Tracey") ([Kelly Holmes](/wiki/Kelly_Holmes "Kelly Holmes"))

[The cauldron](/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics_and_Paralympics_cauldron "2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron") designed by [Thomas Heatherwick](/wiki/Thomas_Heatherwick "Thomas Heatherwick") was described as "one of the best\-kept secrets of the opening ceremony": until this point, its design, location, and who would light it had not been revealed.


Who designed the cauldron for the 2012 Summer Olympics?