I think he learned his lesson...
Posted on 07/04/2024 7:54:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
When government posters recently appeared in Métro stations advising Parisians to work from home during the summer’s Olympic Games to avoid overcrowded public transport, Julie, 24, a support worker for refugees, was puzzled.
“It feels a bit like Covid lockdown all over again,” she said. “It’s like saying: ‘Parisians, stay confined to your homes, out of the way, while all this money is spent on the Games.’ Personally, I’ll stay away. I’m not happy about the idea of clearing homeless people from the city centre to make way for the Games.”
As Paris prepares for the Olympics and Paralympics, politicians, sports stars and the president, Emmanuel Macron, are trying to shore up public support for what is being billed as a “revolutionary” and radically different type of games – with half the usual carbon footprint and very little building, to avoid wasteful infrastructure investment.
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So in other words, it will be crap.
Teams are bringing their own AC units because the frogs want to be green.
Stinky time in Paris!!!
I thought Parisians took a month long holiday on the Rivera during July....or am I mistaken?
“I’m not happy about the idea of clearing homeless people from the city centre to make way for the Games.”
Classic liberal dingbat.
August, as I recollect
It’s probably not a bad idea, considering the possibility of terrorists trying something. At least if they’re home, Parisians might be safer if anything happens.
Pepé Le Pew
Los Angeles requested the same thing during the LA Olympics, and a lot of people complied. The air was never so clean.
Wont happen today.
I remember reading those articles. They saw people would be happy sleeping without air-conditioning in the middle of summer. I mean, if you live in Alaska, that’s probably not an issue, but in a place like Paris hitting 90° can happen.
I forgot when it was, but it’s been a while, when hundreds of people died in the United Kingdom, I believe, because of heat wave struck, and most places didn’t have air conditioning.
Won’t be watching a second of it from opening to closing. I know I didn’t watch any of the Tokyo games in 21. Have no memory of anything from the Rio games in 16. I do recall watching the opening ceremony of the London games in 12 and I think that might have killed it for me forever.
Obviously, the Olympics are way too political now. I can't even root for USA anymore. I'll rather root for another nation, let's say Jamaica instead.
I don’t begrudge anyone watching and enjoying them now. While I did watch something of the Athens and Beijing games the last Olympics I solidly watched were the Sydney games in 2000. Going back to the first games I recall as a child in 1968 in Mexico City I watched them all. I know I haven’t seen everything in sports or the Olympics but at this point I’ve seen enough and the desire is just gone for me.
Especially when you have athletes like Megan Rapinoe representing USA.
…and that guy that plays on the women’s basketball team, Brittney Griner.
I think he learned his lesson...
We’ll see for how long once he starts hearing again all the chatter in his ear about how all the blacks in the USA are oppressed and discriminated against.
The Frenchies do that all the time.
I remember some years ago in the middle of a brutal European heat wave hundreds of senior citizens died in state run nursing homes in France because their care takers decided vacation was more important. Ain't socialized medicine great?
Two things-
The Tour De France is currently taking place and as usual they manage to hide all of France’s dysfunction from viewers.
the second thing is both the women’s basketball and soccer teams are notable discontents and easy to avoid.
I watched the entire track/field trials and almost all the qualifiers thanked GOD and/or were proud Americans.
IMO it is not fair to cast the net over the entirety of our US Olympic team because of the two teams of malcontents.
PS if you like watching Usain Bolt-
She’carrie Richards9on, is obv spiritual and about as proud a Texan as one can find and should win the 100m. Her tatoos are excessive beyond that she is easy to root on to victory.
On the men’s side, Noah Lyles will be favored in both the 100m and 200m-I don’t know about him, he is too arrogant/showboat type for me but our second guy Kung Fu Kenny Bednarik is as likeable as they come.
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