Sochi Winter Olympics: Games dance into the history books with spectacular opening ceremony

By Nick Miller
Updated February 9 2014 - 12:18pm, first published February 8 2014 - 7:10pm
One of the rings forming the Olympic Rings fails to open during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Photo: Mark Humphrey
One of the rings forming the Olympic Rings fails to open during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Photo: Mark Humphrey


It began with an illustrated lecture on the Russian alphabet, featured a flying, singing girl (Sputnikki Webster, anyone?) and it ended with Vladimir Putin’s (alleged) girlfriend helping light the Olympic flame.

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