Barely started and already a first hiccup! While the official start of the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games is not scheduled until Friday February 6 with the opening ceremony – which for the first time will take place simultaneously on four sites -, certain events were already on the program this week.
The first curling games were played on Wednesday February 4 at the Olympic stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo. A first evening of the Games marked, therefore, by a first problem since after only a few stone throws, the lights went out in the enclosure.
A brief power outage turned off the scoreboards for the ongoing mixed doubles matches between Sweden and South Korea, Great Britain and Norway, Canada and the Czech Republic and between Estonia and Switzerland.
Stopped in their meetings, the players preferred to joke about it. According to journalists present on site, some athletes took the opportunity to pass the time by improvising “air guitar” with their brooms instead of guitars.
The matches finally resumed after a few minutes to the applause of the several hundred spectators present in the stands.
“There was a brief interruption of competition at the Olympic Curling Stadium in Cortina due to a power problem,” the organizing committee said in a statement provided to The Athletic. The interruption lasted approximately three minutes. Power was restored immediately, and the competition has since resumed and is proceeding as scheduled. “.
