Paris Olympic Games: A Snapshot of a Progressive Hell
Instead of seizing the opportunity to celebrate French excellence, everything is done to denigrate and sully it.
Instead of seizing the opportunity to celebrate French excellence, everything is done to denigrate and sully it.
There is an immensely wide gulf between Mozart’s prodigious talent and Nakamura’s incomprehensible whining.
Homeless migrants relocated to rural areas to present cleaner image of capital city.
In high places, there is a subject that people dare not talk about, but which is on everyone’s mind: what if the whole thing ends in a gigantic fiasco?
Tensions grow among homeless and in relocation areas
The Parisian Olympic organisers are so confident that they have no plan B in case the water quality tests are still bad at the time of the Games.
Book sellers have no “intention of moving.” Their representative points to the absurdity of doing away with the bookshops during the Games: “We’re a major symbol of Paris, we’ve been here for 450 years.”
Only as “individual neutral athletes” should Russians participate, says the IOC. About the Paris Olympics, however, no decision has been made.
The restoration work will have been an undertaking on a totally unprecedented scale—a material experience, but also a spiritual one, of which our contemporary era offers few examples.
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