With Heavy-Handed Symbolism, Officials Lose Keys To Olympic Stadium 

Let the Games begin, once they can just get this damn thing open.

The opening ceremony isn’t until Friday evening, but the Olympic events kicked off at the Maracanã yesterday with some women’s soccer, a necessity to cram all the matches in. And just before kickoff, officials realized they didn’t have the key to one of the stadium’s two gates. Enter the fire patrol with the bolt cutters.