Okay, yesterday was the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics hosted in Paris. These Olympic Games are the 33rd Olympic Games (XXXIII). The previous Games were hosted in Tokyo, initially scheduled for July-August 2020, but due to COVID-19, they were held in July-August 2021. To be blunt, it was probably the most dull and unmemorable Games ever.
Every hosting country strives to create the best possible opening ceremony, showcasing their history and culture and making it a great spectacle. We all know that French people love to create flamboyant events, and that is what they tried to do here.
The ceremony took place all around Paris. They used everything they could, creating pop-up events all around the city. Of course, they used the river for the national teams' parade. It was different from the norm, and I can respect that, even if it was not to my liking.
Céline Dion and Lady Gaga were among the biggest stars who sang at the opening ceremonies. I liked their show and what they tried to achieve.
At some point, as I mentioned, the events changed locations, and different things were shown, like the decapitated Queen Marie Antoinette singing. That was a really awkward moment. Then there was a "woke" show with transgender individuals taking the stage and singing. The most disrespectful event, in my opinion, was the representation of Jesus' Last Supper with fat ladies as Jesus, transgenders, and a blue, Smurf-like person. I am not religious at all, but it was disrespectful to those who are. This kind of display will not help bring together different cultures and nations, as the spirit of the Games intends, but will divide them more.
Once again, the woke agenda is becoming more dominant, and I can't really understand why. If I have to rate the ceremony, it was 4 out of 10.
P.S. I liked the parkour; it was like playing Assassin's Creed Unity.
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I have got to agree with you here... I heard somewhere that the instructions for the Opening Ceremony was that it should be about the athletes and honor them and their accomplishments, but instead, I feel like what remained to all of us is the WOKE propaganda... I would feel bad about it as an athlete, because finally being there at an opening ceremony, and then it is "ruined" by political propaganda...
The athletes where left out that is for sure. I haven't even learned anything new about their history.
Thanks for bringing this up, I hadn't even thought to watch. Sounds like Paris went a little bit overboard with the wokeness, but what do you expect from an Olympic Games with a clitoris as the official mascot doll/logo this year?!
Stupid and perversely provocative. Reminds me of the stunts undergrads used to pull in the late 60s (my era at NYU) just to get attention.
Yeap totaly stupid yes give space to everyone but don’t make the minority the protagonist just to provoke not at this point in time.
I haven't watched any of it. I lost interest in it about 15 years ago when it started getting weird.
From what I've seen online so far it seems like a whole basket case that for some reason people continue to bend over backwards for the 2% of the population and totally avoid the other 98% It's fuckin weird.
Yeap it is becoming extremely annoying that super inclusivity they are trying .
I did not watch it, I stopped watching most things related to the Olympics a long time ago. Every now and then some specific sport will attract my attention and I will watch. I do have one question though, the uproar about the Last Supper, first of all this is just a painting not actually something sacred, and second of all I see no resemblance with what happened at the inauguration, I mean the painting is of Jesus and his 12 disciples, at the inauguration I see way more than thirteen people and all of them look weird, I have no idea what they represent certainly not something religious. Maybe I am missing something? Or is this just people interpreting something that is not actually there, at least not to me.