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The most expensive Winter Olympics in history are underway after an incredibly lavish opening
ceremony in the Russian resort of Sochi. However, it didn't all completely go to plan.
Embarrassingly, a technical hitch meant that the last of the five rings making up the Olympic
symbol failed to open. However, the ceremony's producer Konstantin Ernst defended the glitch:
Among five rings, one of them didn't open. And you know, Zam Buddhists have an idea:
if you have an ideally polished ball, you have to leave a scratch, to get an idea of
how ideally it was polished.
No one normal person can be disturbed from the two-hour story by one unopened snowflake.
This is a paranoid reaction.
Glitches aside, Russian prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova who danced during the ceremony said
she was overwhelmed by the spectacle.
I held my breath. It wasn't just nerves, not fright, it was adrenaline indeed when you
come to the stadium and when you understand that billions of people are watching you.
I think this is worth living for, and I don't think it will be repeated.
And what a lavish opening ceremony it was and so it should be! The Games are the most
expensive in history, costing around $51 billion.