France bids reluctant farewell to dazzling Paris Olympics

a link with the next Games in Los Angeles

LA is up against it trying to have an Olympics as spectacular as the one held in Paris. I'm curious to see what venues will be used in LA and if new ones are built whether they can have some of the features that The Sphere in Las Vegas has, but specially built for sporting events. The Vegas Sphere reminds of Huxley's 'feelies', getting closer to a "Brave New World".

Now it's old news..

The clownery is over..

Move forward people..

Good, that’s it finished.

"We don't want life to get back to normal," he said.

Tell that for people who run business and need to work in Paris.

Who are the nominees for the award more important the the gold medal, the Pierre de Coubertin award?

Thank God it's over !!

An amazing Olympics from start to finish. The naysayers said it was "impossible", but it was a marvellous show, a triumph of the human spirit.

Hats off to Paris, and the French people!

I was a teenager but I can never forget the rocket man enter the stadium at the 1984 LA Olympics.

It was a "Wow" factor that is hard to beat so far❗

Worst Olympics ever.

Worst Olympics ever.

By what metric? Your "gut feel"? Did it "outrage and shock" your sensibilities?

Easily one of the greatest Olympics ever. TV networks such as NBC are reporting enormous ratings. The world loved it.

Easily one of the greatest Olympics ever. TV networks such as NBC are reporting enormous ratings. The world loved it.

NBC is an American network. The reason the ratings were high because the time difference is only 8 hours, so NBC could show it in prime time.  

It was a great Olympics if you had the money. Countries from the global south got screwed.

LA is up against it trying to have an Olympics as spectacular as the one held in Paris.

LOL, Paris was joke. The venues were second rate. Just look at the athletes village. What a joke.

LOL, Paris was joke. The venues were second rate. Just look at the athletes village. What a joke.

...says someone about every Olympics.

Gotta love the western media, notice how they are not mentioning all the problems with Paris games. They had no problem pointing out the problems with Tokyo. Typical of the western press.

LA's 84 Olympics saw an opening ceremony where 84 Grand Pianos played "Rhapsody in Blue " by Gershwin.

I thought I knew "kitsch " but that topped out on the "kitschy meter ".

How can LA top that....need something really artistic and American.

No. Not Abstract Expressionism....

I'm thinking DISNEY ON ICE {ice being slang for meth.}

How can LA top that....need something really artistic and American.

How about the sound of Gunfire? Thats really American. LOL

How about the sound of Gunfire? Thats really American. LOL

Which city are you from that is apparently completely devoid of crime?

"Dazzling". "Enchanted". LOL Rubbish.

It was "amazing" that the best "stars" they could find for the opening were foreign imports 40 and 60 year olds who haven't had a hit in over 10 years. (Not really)

It was "astonishing" that the drag queen show "shocked" the world by mean-spiritedly mocking Christianity while steering well clear of the "religion of peace" for obvious low-hanging fruit reasons. (Not really)

It was "unbelievable" that no one at all were made ill by forcing athletes to compete in the industrially polluted and totally unsafe-to-swim Seine out of Parisian "pride". (Except many were, and some still are, sick because of it)

And it was "surprising" that a "female" boxer, disqualified by the actual sports authority in boxing from competing in their sport because, well..."she" is a MAN, with male chromosomes and filled with male testosterone, yes it was "surprising" that this person ended up pummeling every true biological female "she" matched up against, sending "feminism" ten steps back so that a patently fake "trangender" could destroy the real ladies' dreams and crushingly prove once again, that physically, a biological male IS superior to a woman. (Except is was a surprise to no one with even half a brain)

Worst Olympics Ever. Good riddance to the horrid, degenerate rubbish masquerading as "games".

This was one of the best Olympics I've ever seen. But you can't keep the people who come here to put things down from putting things down. If god himself said it was a great Olympics, some people here would say, "Oh, yeah? What do you know?"

@ Hito Bito - you must be an absolute riot a parties.

"Did you see that Paris Olympics? I was outraged! It was pure degenerate rubbish masquerading as "games"!

Room cleared.

And it was "surprising" that a "female" boxer, disqualified by the actual sports authority in boxing from competing in their sport because, well..."she" is a MAN, with male chromosomes and filled with male testosterone, yes it was "surprising" that this person ended up pummeling every true biological female "she" matched up against, sending "feminism" ten steps back so that a patently fake "trangender" could destroy the real ladies' dreams and crushingly prove once again, that physically, a biological male IS superior to a woman. (Except is was a surprise to no one with even half a brain)

Nothing in this post is true

Imane isn’t a man

There is 0 proof she has male chromosomes

The IBA that she was disqualified from never disclosed the testing methods they used to justify her disqualification

The IBA is an extremely distrusted “sports authority”

It definitely had its moments. You could see from the us basketball team or Djokovic winning a gold medal means a lot to even the elite level sportsmen. I think more should be done to bring the best footballers(cut the u23 rule, make it a FIFA sanctioned tournament l),

I was too bloated, the swimming seemed to go on forever, breakdancing and skateboarding don’t feel worthy of the title of Olympic sport, if they are darts, snooker, baseball and karate have as much if not more right to be included. Cut the cycling events they are about as exciting as watching paint dry and only favour rich nations..

Fighto!

@ Hito Bito - you must be an absolute riot a parties

He’s got an opinion and he offered it. Is it really necessary to offend every time someone doesn’t agree with you.

@ Asianman -

He’s got an opinion and he offered it. Is it really necessary to offend every time someone doesn’t agree with you.

His "opinion" is simply to offer up endless negativity and bile.

Putrid rubbish needs to be called out.

To be fair to Hito Bito, the swimming in the Seine bit was pretty iffy.

As for the allegedly blasphemous ceremony...note that it was ONLY christians who got their panties in a twist. I didn't hear a single peep from representatives of any other religion, and you know what religious people are like: they can whip up something to be offended by in a nanosecond.

Anyway, christianity - the Americanised version, at least - deserves nothing less than scorn and ridicule. Evidence? Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Franklin Graham....

Imane isn’t a man

That shouldn't be the argument, at least not my the modern understanding of gender (that is, as a social construct). But she may very well not be female in biological/genetic terms.

There is 0 proof she has male chromosomes

Nor is there proof she doesn't. That's the crux of the problem: there are no publicly verifiable test results available. And the IOPC (foolishly) eliminated sex testing years ago, leaving the matter up to individual national organizations' requirements and going by athletes' passports, a ludicrous (non-)standard for proof.

The IBA that she was disqualified from never disclosed the testing methods they used to justify her disqualification

Nor can they, legally. Those are a matter of confidential medical record. They did, however, cite the labs used, and both of those labs are multi-accredited testing laboratories. There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the tests...we just don't know what those results are.

But you know how that could be solved in an instant? The athletes could agree to the release of that that data. I wonder why they don't do that? Or why Khelif withdrew her appeal of last year's ban and Lin never appealed at all (if an appeal had gone to court, those results would have become public record).

The IBA is an extremely distrusted “sports authority”

No argument there. But their opposite number in this matter, the IOC, as also one of the most corrupt organizations in sports history. Each have teh credibility of a politician's promise.

People on both sides of this fiasco have been making confident statements that "Lin is a man!" or "Khelif was born a biological female!" despite having zero firm knowledge of what they're talking about (or if they do, they're on shaky legal ground re: confidentiality). But questioning these boxers' biological sex is not an unreasonable position (although too many who have done so have been strident and disrespectful about it, which is unnecessary), and the IOC needs to step up and address this before 2028. Bring back sex testing.

Aur bua France....

The croissants are over (apparently there were little other foods), the water cooled rooms where hot (literally), thieves had their fest, and Seine was brown.... many athletes where sputting "rainbows" our of their mouths.

One thing I have to mention... the "christian depiction" of the opening ceremony was not "christian" was a Pagan fest recreation. Some poeple should understand that their Jesus is not everywhere.

France bid a reluctant farewell on Monday to an "enchanted" fortnight of Olympic sport as athletes headed home from Paris

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Probably the worst host in the history of the Olympic Games.

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Hito BitoToday  10:56 am JST “ "Dazzling". "Enchanted". LOL Rubbish.

It was "amazing" that the best "stars" they could find for the opening were foreign imports 40 and 60 year olds who haven't had a hit in over 10 years. (Not really)

It was "astonishing" that the drag queen show "shocked" the world by mean-spiritedly mocking Christianity while steering well clear of the "religion of peace" for obvious low-hanging fruit reasons. (Not really) 

It was "unbelievable" that no one at all were made ill by forcing athletes to compete in the industrially polluted and totally unsafe-to-swim Seine out of Parisian "pride". (Except many were, and some still are, sick because of it)

And it was "surprising" that a "female" boxer, disqualified by the actual sports authority in boxing from competing in their sport because, well..."she" is a MAN, with male chromosomes and filled with male testosterone, yes it was "surprising" that this person ended up pummeling every true biological female "she" matched up against, sending "feminism" ten steps back so that a patently fake "trangender" could destroy the real ladies' dreams and crushingly prove once again, that physically, a biological male IS superior to a woman. (Except is was a surprise to no one with even half a brain)

Worst Olympics Ever. Good riddance to the horrid, degenerate rubbish masquerading as "games". “

Even the medals suck apparently, a lot of people criticizing the quality of the medals lmao. And Jordan Chiles just lost her bronze medal in gymnastics and now people are crying ‘racism’, lmao; she stood alongside Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade for the first ever all black podium—but the ruling was clearly nonsensical and biased against Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu, who didn’t win because the judges decided that an all black podium would send a strong message of “diversity” for the gymnastics, which has been long dominated by whites. What a mess, SMDH.

Goof job, Paris. Next to liberal and ‘woke’ LA.

I think LA will outwoke Paris.

You won’t need fireworks. The permanently outraged may spontaneously combust.

You won’t need fireworks. The permanently outraged may spontaneously combust.

I shudder to imagine the amount of time they will be outraged on internet forums about something that they all claim not to watch.

Paris put on a magnificent show, I expect LA to put on a cracker too. And cricket is in it!

Nations blessed with athletes of migrant origins have witnessed an increase in the medal haul of several countries in the Global North. Such athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympic teams of Canada, USA, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Great Britain have significantly increased the joy and happiness of their adoring fans in Paris, back home, and in the wider diaspora. It's a win-win situation for the generous migrant hosting countries and for their distinguished medal-winning athletes of migrant origins.

You won’t need fireworks. The permanently outraged may spontaneously combust.

I shudder to imagine the amount of time they will be outraged on internet forums about something that they all claim not to watch.

I’m pretty sure they are watching it with erm..interest?

Always be suspicious of those who protest too much.

Like the preachers railing against sin and late found in hotel rooms with hard drugs and male prostitutes.

Too many of them to rule this out as a cheap shot.

And cricket is in it!

I think we’ll leave that debate for another day…

And cricket is in it!

I think we’ll leave that debate for another day…

It's another day, so let's have it. Aren't you a fan of the game?

Clip: They are in LA ? Where are they going to find the staff to prepare a first class pitches and players want allow themselves to play on any substandard pitch. Imagine lebronze and co playing on a substandard surface. You would get away with dropped in pitches but the expanse and the number of pitches and the staff etc. That a huge dollars to one sport. Brisbane is having cricket and have the infrastructure and experience and staff and grounds for large attendance. I hope LA pull it off but I think adding cricket will be a be ask.

Where are they going to find the staff to prepare a first class pitches and players want allow themselves to play on any substandard pitch.

They held some games in the US in the recent T20 World Cup. Pitches weren't bad apparently. Better than the ones in Barbados by most accounts.

They'll probably just hire some good groundsmen from cricket playing nations to prep the pitches. They'll be fine.

Countries from the global south got screwed.

They had the 2016 Rio Olympics just 8 years ago!

And it was "surprising" that a "female" boxer, disqualified by the actual sports authority in boxing from competing in their sport

The IBA is a disgraced organization and banned for incompetence and corruption!

(All boxing feds are corrupt, but ya have to be an extra level of corruption to get a ban)

Don't die on that IBA hill! They ain't worth it, lol

Cut the cycling events they are about as exciting as watching paint dry and only favour rich nations..

Japan has the most expensive bicycles - costing $140k each!

(Didn't help them tho)