Blown Out Of Proportion?

An interesting perspective on the Sochi Olympics from the Christian Science Monitor. The author points out that there are glitches at the start of every Olympics and suggests problems are being blown out of proportion because Russia, or possibly because Putin. On the other hand there's this: 

Yet Russia sometimes plays into its own stereotypes, appearing to confirm latent cold war perceptions in the West. Though the fifth Olympic ring failed to open, Russian television viewers did not see it. Russian television spliced in a clip from a rehearsal where all the rings worked.

Again, mistakes at the opening ceremony are hardly unprecedented – and big ones, too. In Vancouver, one of the pillars designed to hold the Olympic flame failed to rise out of the floor. But Vancouver responded by ribbing their own mistake at the closing ceremony, not attempting to convince Canadians that it never happened.

Read the entire article here.