Olympics airlift Zambonis to Vancouver, give up on ‘green’ ice machines
Screw the environment, we want ice.
Follow a disasterous resurfacing yesterday, the Vancouver Olympic Committee has launched an emergency airlift of a Zamboni machine to the Winter Olympics.
While often thought of as synonymous with ice resurfacing, Zamboni is actually a trademark of a specific machine. The Olympic committee, in an effort to ‘go green’ decided not to use the tried and tested Zamboni but an electronic Olympia machine.
The first one belched up a bunch of snow on the long track speed skating oval.
Then the backup did the same thing.
Then the emergency backup shredded the ice to the point some teams wanted a postponment of the race.
That was it. Back to the standby and an airlift mission was tasked to fly a true Zamboni out to Vancouver so that the ice resurfacing can go ahead without fail.
Sometimes going green is not ready for primetime.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Follow me on Twitter