in other news.. (deathdude may have seen)
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Is it cold in
here, or is it just me?
Posted by NBC executive Jon Miller: Friday,
February 24 at 10:48 a.m. EST
Pinerolo Palaghiaccio, about an hour outside of Torino, was rocking
for today's bronze medal match between the U.S. and Great Britian.
Even IOC President Jacques Rogge was in the packed house.
John
MacDougall/Getty Images
Curling fans were "treated" to an unexpected
visitor...visitors?...during Friday's bronze medal
match.
Any doubt that curling has arrived was removed when the event was
interrupted by a streaker.
During the fifth end break (curling's version of halftime and/or a
seventh inning stretch), a large and not-too-muscular guy ran out
across the sheet. Nothing on except for the obligatory online
gambling ad and a strategically-wrapped rubber chicken.
USA skip Pete Fenson had a chuckle, and so did Rogge. Less amused
was chief referee Keith Wendorf, who tackled the offender.
An umpire mercifully covered him with a coat and he was led out of
the arena by the Italian polizia.
(source: NBC
Olympics Torino Tracker)
