The Olympic cauldron will be broken up at the London closing ceremony. Its creator said in London o Saturday that each of its 204 copper 'petals' will be given to the competing nations as a souvenir. Thomas Heatherwick said he had wanted to create a cauldron for the Olympic flame that would "root the whole ceremony in the spectators, in the people who would be there". The cauldron was lit in the centre of the Olympic stadium but before the athletics events begins there on August 3, it will be lifted into place at one end of the stadium where a giant bell hung during the opening ceremony. Heatherwick said at the end of the Games this cauldron will dismantle itself and radiate back down to the ground and each of those copper pieces taken away by each nation and put in a national Olympic cabinet somewhere. The lighting of the cauldron by seven young athletes was one of the surprises of a ceremony devised by British film director Danny Boyle which featured James Bond in a spoof film with Queen Elizabeth II.