Olympic Ring Fails to Light During Opening Ceremony

Olympic ring fails to light during opening ceremony.

So the opening sequence of the Sochi Opening Ceremony included floating islands and loads of Russian things.

BBC Two / Sochi

Leading to the snowflakes forming the Olympic rings.

bbc.co.uk / Sochi

Then this happened. The fifth ring didn’t open.

I don’t know about you but I don’t think this was planned.

Bruce Bennett / Getty Images

The Huffington Post went with this.

Here is what the rings should have looked like.

Here's what those rings were supposed to look like #gcamSochi pic.twitter.com/14Tj5tovKJ
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) February 7, 2014