Wayne looks reaaaaaall uncomfortable 
Milking for all it is worth?
YAGGGG malfunction
We were wondering that, too.
And the winner is…technical difficulties!
OMFG - Not phallic at all - not even a bit.
Is Derek Smalls trapped in one?
Techincal difficulties…
edit, beated to the punch…
I was rooting for Rick Hansen to light it. We went to the same high school.
i believe, but am not sure, that French is the official language of the Olympics. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, was French; and so I wouldn’t be surprised if “French first” was a legacy to the founder.
I have been turning this over in my head a bit as well-----All I can come up with is that somehow French seems more sophisticated and urbane than English, and certainly the Olympics is all about style and image.
I would bet (a wild guess on my part) that at least 3 of 4 native Canadians speak English as a first language…
ETA-----wasnt Pierre de Coubertin actually Swiss?
That would have been really cool if it had worked.
Damn, I blinked. Who lit the flame??
The Great Vancouver Bong!
Nice - the world is watching, and the cauldron doesn’t work.
Now, if only there was some snow on Cypress Mountain …
French first is an IOC requirement. Don’t worry English Canada, this isn’t some kind of consipiracy.
So which one didn’t have a pillar to light?
One of those giant things didn’t come up, right?
And Wayne light the external cauldron. Go Wayne! Go Wayne!
Yeah. The one on the camera side, apparently, to make sure that’s it’s as obvious as possible.
Not a surprise to have erectile difficulty when you smoke as much pot as they do in Vancouver.
Wow…Biden on NBC… he’s uhhhh something “man”
Really, I am still watching.
Who actually, after all the hype, lit the flame.
Seemed like a cluster -flook to me. Was there an actual "lighter’?
It was Katriona LeMay Doan, Nancy Greene, Steve Nash, Rick Hanson, Wayne Gretzky.