4 pillares were supposed to come out of the ground... they had a hydraulic issue, and after about a good minutes delay, only 3 emerged. TV announcers said there was a problem..... but ppl in the crowd had no idea there was an issue at all. Wasnt' as bad as ppl are making it out to be. Could have been a lot worse.
Cheers!
Gretzky and others made sarcastic faces that showed something was clearly going wrong. Catriona standing there holding her flame at what should've been a highlight of her life was horrible.
The worst part isn't even this technical error. IMO lighting the cauldron in the stadium, and then wisking away Gretz dangerously in a truck to another cauldron was the biggest WTF.
So, all those dignitaries/ people in attendance and athletes watched the lighting of a FAKE cauldron?
If they were to go this route, what they should have done was discreetly move the entire cauldron from the stadium in the middle of the night to the waterfront. You only light the cauldron once, not twice in two separate places.
The whole night was a fiasco. They couldn't get the real Joanie Mitchell or Leonard Cohen for the biggest event in the world? Fat annoying guy insulting Americans ("we say please and thank you...and we say zed not zee") when we should be the gracious host? Overdoing it with the natives schtick and a giant polar bear; no wonder Americans think we live in igloos.