Sochi Olympics: Olympic ring fails to open at opening ceremony

Subscribe to ITN News: http://bit.ly/1bmWO8h A technical hitch during the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Sochi meant that the last of the five rings making up the Olympic symbol failed to open. Russian television broadcasted a pre-taped version of the Games' symbol from rehearsals, which millions of people in Russia saw. The apparent failure meant the ring could not be illuminated by fireworks as had happened during rehearsals. Five giant snowflake-shaped structures suspended from the roof of the Fisht Stadium on the shores of the Black Sea in Sochi were supposed to open into circles and then light up with pyrotechnics. Only four opened, and that particular feature, near the very start of the 2-1/2-hour opening ceremony, was abandoned. Ceremony producer Konstantin Ernst was philosophical about the mishap. "Among five rings, one of them didn't open. And you know, Zen 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," he said. Report by Andrea Lilly. Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1aENuyJ Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1fta2Qp Add us on Google+: http://bit.ly/17z0Dpd More stories from ITN: Shocking footage of dead giraffe killed by zookeepers: http://bit.ly/1egDiXP Criminal fail: Arsonist accidentally lights himself on fire: http://bit.ly/1aDp0Wm "F**k the EU": US diplomat's phone call leaked online: http://bit.ly/1d2l40p Creepy statue pops up on college campus: http://bit.ly/1fO05yQ Man attacks bus passenger in front of his child: http://bit.ly/1btYEkz Amazing! Meet the man who ran across an entire country: http://bit.ly/LQ0EgQ David Beckham is mobbed in Miami, creating "dangerous" situation: http://bit.ly/1aykd8t CCTV: Gunmen rob patients at a Rio de Janeiro hospital: http://bit.ly/1gMjMdA WATCH: One of Italy's most dangerous mafia bosses arrested: http://bit.ly/1n8Jqqr Sinkhole swallows car whole overnight in family driveway: http://bit.ly/1anlzTt Watch Europe's biggest ever controlled explosion: http://bit.ly/1k3TDav Philip Seymour Hoffman's final interview: http://bit.ly/1ekc0pi Amazing timelapse video of cruise being 'stretched': http://bit.ly/MF8cDM WATCH: The moment a giraffe gives birth to baby girl: http://bit.ly/1ftCSSv Congressman threatens to throw reporter off balcony: http://bit.ly/1iOWIe5 New Zealand man survives shark attack by fighting back: http://bit.ly/1d7p5MF See 2013's Most Watched Videos: http://bit.ly/1cKAmGl See our Biggest Videos of All Time: http://bit.ly/18ZACCf