Posted on 07/28/2024 3:49:17 PM PDT by Morgana
Paris 2024 organiser Anne Descamps has apologised for any offence caused by religious depictions during the opening ceremony.
Friday's showpiece has drawn some criticism for a banquet scene where an actor playing Greek god Dionysus took centre stage on a table with drag queens, which has been interpreted to resemble Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper painting.
Some religious groups condemned the ceremony, including the Catholic Church in France who said it included 'scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity'.
In a press conference on Sunday, Descamps apologised for any offence caused and insisted that the ceremony intended to 'celebrate community tolerance'.
'Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,' she said. On the contrary, I think Thomas Jolly did try to intend to celebrate community tolerance. We believe this ambition was achieved, if people have taken any offence, we of course are really sorry.'
The International Olympic Committee later said in a statement: 'The IOC has taken note of and welcomes the clarification given by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee regarding the Opening Ceremony.
'In the daily press briefing, the Organising Committee said that there was never any intention to show disrespect towards any religious group or belief.
'They reiterated that their intention with the Opening Ceremony was always to celebrate community and tolerance. The Organising Committee also said that if anyone was offended by certain scenes, this was completely unintentional and they were sorry.'
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After Bud Light, Target, and Planet Fitness they should have known better. On top of that they go after a major world religion?
No some one needs their ass handed to them. If the French jail people for this then that is what needs done.
They also need major fines on top of everyone being fired.
The French ate hostile to Christianity.
That was NO apology..that was a “Sorry if we offended you” sort of half ass apology
They are worried about sponsors.
The French will be doing opening ceremonies in Niqabs by the next time the Olympics return there.
Giving them the Bud Light treatment is sufficient.
Bud Light is now #3. They used to be #1 for over 20 years.
This wasn’t just some tossed together little show for a small group of weirdos. It was the opening ceremony at the Olympics, it had to go through a lot of people before it got okayed.
Ultimately, the buck stops with President Macron. He's gay. No one buys his marriage to his grandmother.
It wasn’t only the Last Supper. There was the beat up Statue of Liberty, the bloody heads in the windows, the sickos, the Pale Horse, etc. Dozens of officials approved this over the years so they need to name the names. The actors were staging a walkout over money so the IOC had a way out of a potential scandal handed to them but they continued anyway. It is all on them. No apology will ever be accepted, not that it was sincere. Next time, maybe they can mock Mohammed and see what happens. You know, fairness and diversity.
BTW who are their sponsors? anyone know?
Ever since the French Revolution.
If they’re even allowed by their mooselimb overlords to host the Olympics at all.
More so than viewership.
“sorry, but don’t really mean it, they are making me say it so I dont get fired”
I really hate pretenders (liars), and the world seems ever more full of them.
To be sure, the wardrobe “malfunction” with the thing behind the little kid likely sent more than a few sponsors washing their hands of this.
Indeed.
Have been since their Jacobin revolution.
The Olympic partner program includes longtime sponsors Coca-Cola Co. (KO), Visa Inc. (V), as well as Intel Corp. (INTC) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA) - which have both been worldwide Olympic partners since 2017 - and Airbnb Inc. (ABNB), which became a partner in 2019. Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD), whose Budweiser brand sponsored the Qatar World Cup (and was subject to a surprise stadium beer ban), became an Olympic partner earlier this year. The company’s Corona Cero will be the global beer sponsor of the Olympic Games.
Toyota Motor Corp. (JP:7203) became the Olympics’ first-ever mobility partner in 2015. In May, Japan’s Kyodo News reported that the automaker will end its top-tier Olympic sponsorship deal after the Paris games.
I hope they lost all sponsors.
Trouble in Frogtown. Too bad, so sad.
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