What are the reasons why the just-concluded Paris Olympics are worth remembering?
Here are some memorable ones according to Acrimònia.
- The Opening Marathon
The opening spectacle of the Olympic Games is always a defining moment. But the one in Paris took several moments, exceeding the 4-hour mark. French grandeur was expressed at the highest level, with an event that some said overshadowed and overshadowed the very reason for the ceremony.
- The Penultimate Supper
Finishing up, shall we say, the spectacular opening of the games was the divisive LGBTQI+ moment, with a marathon within a marathon in which the rainbow universe took center stage and made many spectators go sideways for dessert, who really thought they were facing their own Last Supper. Instead it involved Dionysus, Gargantua, Pantagruel, the Smurfs and who knows who else. The more appropriate subtitle would have been, "As soon as I understand it I'll be pissed off...."
- The torched killer runs across the rooftops
We've all thought it, with varying intensity based on genetic and generational traits: the bearer of the flame who ran across rooftops, through museums, and rode the steel horse, looked an awful lot like the protagonist of Assassin's Creed. Discarding the hypothesis that this resemblance was intentional (unless the powers-that-be want to make the video game fashionable again) we will forever remain in doubt as to who he was or they really were, since in this case the mask took all the stage.
- The Seine, treacherous river
The river of Paris, as treacherous as Parisians, has pretended to be tame, tidy and clean. It has sabotaged tests for the presence of pollutants and sewage discharges by deluding the city's mayor into believing that, with a mere 1.4 billion euros, it has transformed a metropolitan and unclean waterway into the stream in which Heidi used to bathe. The situation, never more than in this case, is fluid. One day its waters are swimmable, the next not. Only the report of post-race infections will provide clear answers.
- Rejoicing in defeat
Italian swimmer Benedetta Pilato, who finished fourth at the Paris 2024 Olympics in the 100-meter breaststroke by one hundredth. When interviewed, she did not cry but said she was pleased, in any case, to have participated in the Olympics and to have come close to the podium. An approach so much like sportsmanship that it infuriated sportsmen-especially couch sportsmen-who disdainfully commented, "So what did you go there for, to lose?". Same sportsmanship demonstrated by foilist Filippo Macchi, who instead of ranting against the referees decided to accept their verdict.
- Sleeping on their laurels
Athletes, sculpted and muscular in the vast majority, have to rest between competitions. But inside the dorms of the Olympic Village they found themselves with cardboard beds, the socialization of which was followed by a planetary outrage, apparently mainly related to whether those recyclable bedding could actually be used for nightly sports activities by couples. Fortunately, the alarm soon abated: those cots, already used in Tokyo 2020, hold over 250 pounds. The supply of condoms reserved for athletes will therefore not go to waste.
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- Female swimmers in makeup
In what has been presented as the first Olympics with gender parity - understood as a numerical calculation of participants divided between men and women - a small case with professionally relevant effects broke out precisely because of the "inappropriate" phrase of a British commentator who would have liked to sympathetically - for him - explain the delay of the female swimmers with respect to the podium by their need to have to wear makeup. Given the build and physique of these athletes, he was lucky to lose only his seat.
- Recycled medals
An Olympic medal is always a nice item to display and a topic of conversation of some level. But if the award in question, whether gold, silver, or myrrh, has an old piece of recycled metal embedded in it, then its social value increases quite a bit. Especially if that metal was part of the original structure of the world's most famous Tower and was specially reclaimed to award the best participants in Paris 2024.
- No eating like at home
The Olympic troops quartered in Paris between competitions also fed and refreshed themselves profusely. Feeding and drinking to athletes, journalists, commentators, officials and various freeloaders divided by languages but united by hunger must not have been easy. And indeed a few grumbles seem to have been raised. Not much appreciated was the coffee served in the Press Room, which was compared to a cup of Seine water with some soluble powder badly mixed in. According to the British athletes, who, however, have age-old problems with France, the food would be just inedible, meager at best. So much so that they required a Plan B with chefs specializing in delicacies from across the Channel.
- Simone Biles
After the difficulties of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, when she had to withdraw from the women's team final and the four individual finals because of health problems, the American gymnast so admired by GenZers-for her strength, character, and skill-is back on the platform. Her exercises silence all platitudes and controversies, give an idea of the dedication and effort required for certain achievements, and leave everyone speechless. Without detracting from the hundreds of other athletes who have enlivened Paris 2024.
- Boxing, the stuff of men
Long gone are the days when watching a boxing match would comment on the blows, the readiness, the ability to react to a well-struck hook. In Paris 2024, laboratory boxing, all about chromosomes, intersexuality and DNA analysis, took center stage. The black wave of controversy, fake news and increasingly boorish propaganda made the issue grotesque far beyond the average of the period. Attention to the sports side, zero.
- On the run with Mickey Mouse
An Olympic swimmer fleeing the Village to go to the Park? Apparently so. That's why, according to analysts and subject matter experts, Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso was allegedly removed from the team and banned from returning among her fellow athletes because of "inappropriate" behavior. There were probably other problems, but the idea of escaping to Disneyland was too juicy not to be exploited to build a case and the usual half-hour of shitstorm.
- Pure Italian women
And still on the subject of shit. The Italian national team wins gold in volleyball. Sporting and competitive level spectacle. But the best spectacle that some Italian "politicians" manage to give revolves around the purity of origins of some players, obviously those whose skin color is more annoying to certain pupils. Impossible, for some, to simply rejoice over a beautiful moment of sport, the August controversy, futile and obtuse, starts automatically. Mud medal won this time as well.
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