The FBI is investigating the possibility that a power outage on the last day of the Winter Olympics was caused by a bomb, according to the Associated Press.
Electricity was cut to 33,000 customers–including the airport and the main media center downtown–for up to two hours Sunday morning when a circuit breaker exploded at a Utah Power substation. Investigators later found that a security fence had been cut.
A law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity said railroad spikes found at the scene had caused clear indentations in metal near the site of the explosion.
– Canadian officials want the IOC to review drug tests in cross-country skiing. The goal is for Canadian skier Beckie Scott, who won the bronze medal in the women’s cross-country combined event on Feb. 15, to be awarded gold because the two women who beat her–Russians Olga Danilova and Larissa Lazutina–were later found guilty of doping and kicked out of the Salt Lake City Games.
– Leonid Tyagachev, the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, blamed money problems for the national team’s misfortunes in Salt Lake City, saying his cash-strapped nation lacks adequate training and drug-testing facilities.
– Chia-chan Steven Lee, a member of the Taiwanese bobsledding team who lives in Lake Forest, Ill., was in critical condition after an auto accident in Stockton, Iowa.
