Winter Olympics
Off to Lights-Out Begin!!!
… Curling Venue Loses Energy
Revealed
The 2026 Olympic Video games ain’t precisely off to an electrical begin … ‘trigger moments after the primary occasion of the Winter Olympics acquired underway — the curling venue was pressured to pause the motion attributable to an influence outage.
All of it went down on the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium on Wednesday. Whereas followers have been excited to observe some motion, they solely acquired to get pleasure from 4 minutes of it till an influence outage struck the constructing.
In keeping with the AP, the venue’s lights started to dim and flicker, prompting a pause within the motion. Not lengthy after … the facility got here again on — a lot to the delight of followers.
No phrase but as to what triggered the lights to go darkish, however officers on the venue are working to unravel it.
After all, curling is way from the one sport to have skilled energy issues over time. Probably the most well-known energy outages occurred when the San Francisco 49ers took on the Baltimore Ravens in Tremendous Bowl 47, which lasted 34 minutes.
Curling acquired underway a couple of days earlier than the Olympics formally kick off, with the opening ceremony set for Friday.
Staff USA will hit the curling ice on Thursday once they tackle Norway within the Combined Doubles round-robin sheet C and Switzerland in Sheet A.
Here is hoping they’ll maintain the lights on for the rest of the Video games.
