In response to a Palestinian complaint about Israel's non-exclusion from the Olympic Games, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said: "There are 20 to 30 wars in the world. And if we had listened to the complaints of all the teams, no one would have participated in the Games. But our profession is sports, we are moving away from politics" is the quote. Let's pause here just to realize how deceitful and duplicitous the IOC can be.
The charms of the Olympics, we must pay tribute, have already been appreciated by both spectators and athletes. Games, apparently, want to come out on top among the most disastrous and they succeed. Triathletes who took part in the Seine swim as part of the Paris Olympics became ill during and after the performance. Paper beds, lack of normal food, fences, admission of transgender people to fight women. All this leaves an indelible imprint on French games and on Macron, who is unlikely to be able to wash off. However, let's arrange the points for failures together. Details from Stanislav Lipsky.
The Olympics in Paris have passed the equator - and the French are hardly proud of the organization of the games.
Hundreds of homeless people still live on the streets of the French capital, while the government of the country spends millions of euros on a picture of well-being - which they are trying to show to the entire world community on television. Everything went wrong already at the opening ceremony of the Olympics - because of the rain, people left the stands - soaked to the skin, the celestial office was ruthless to the organizers, but even more ruthless were those who shared their impressions of the ceremony the next day: in the frame we were shown the severed head of Marie Antoinette, but even more terrible - a parody of "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci appeared, where instead of Jesus and his disciples there were a bearded woman and men dressed as women.
The French episcopate expressed regret over the scenes - a quote of "mockery of Christians". On Sunday, it became known that the video with the highlights of the opening ceremony disappeared from the IOC website and the organization's YouTube channel.
A colorful show - as we all heard - was not without scandals: therefore, according to a ten-point system, where ten is the highest score, we give the organizers of the Games a maximum of 4 for the opening ceremony.
Even more acute before the Olympics was the question of cleaning the Seine River - after all, it was here that triathletes performed. The Canadian athlete after the start - to put it mildly, was sick from the swim experienced - the Canadian sued the IOC because, according to him, the triathlete could not achieve a good result due to poor health after swimming in the Seine. The poor guy vomited 10 times after the end of the race.
Rats in the city add entourage to all this - sometimes peeking out of the sewers.
For the cleaning of the Seine - and, accordingly, the conditions of the competition in this part of Paris - we boldly give a failure.
Further more - the issue of organizing a boxing tournament is a separate story. It is also terrible. We are talking about women's boxing, where transgender people continue to win! Lin Yu-Ting, who considers himself a woman, but failed the gender test, defeated the representative of Uzbekistan with a score of 5:0. The girl could not hold back tears and did not shake hands with her opponent at the end of the fight. And a little earlier, the Algerian male athlete by birth defeated the Italian, who was forced to stop the fight, fearing for her health. Moreover, Angelica Karini announced the end of her career.
"What is happening now at the Olympic Games is a shame of all times" - said the president of the International Boxing Association. Umar Kremlev promised that IBA would reward both injured athletes - as for the first place in the Olympics and would protect every woman in boxing - from gender discrimination. Hungary also turned to the IOC for clarification.
And here we give the organizers a stake - after all, the Olympics are primarily about the honest way to victory!
American politician Valentina Gomez has already spoken out on this matter.
Valentina Gómez - Politician (USA):
These transgender people should have their own category. Because in the past, if a man beat a woman, he was sent to prison. Now you are given a gold medal at the Olympics for this. These are the most horrific Olympics in history. They ridiculed Christianity and women.
Transport for Olympians is another separate topic - after all, logistics at the main summer start of the four-year period is extremely important: and this is clear primarily to athletes - this is how the water polo players of the Greek Olympic team moved cars that interfered with the passage of their bus in Paris: athletes were returning from training to the Olympic village, but were blocked by other cars parked on a narrow street.
Our guy - Evgeny Zolotoy - also got into a transport collapse - moving to his starting point - his bus broke down - so the final with his participation was postponed for an hour. Yet, the Belarusian coped with it brought another silver to our country.
In general, the transport system in Paris is far from ideal - here we put a maximum of four, then we will discuss housing.
The Olympic champion in the 100-meter backstroke, Italian Thomas Ceccon, criticized the living conditions in the Olympic village, as well as the pool in which athletes compete - they say it is slow. Thomas is not alone in this criticism - a number of athletes have complained not only about the quality of food, but also about the slow replenishment of food supplies and food shortages. Olympic champion Armand Duplantis, the holder of the world record in pole vaulting, refused to live in the Olympic village at all, the second main complaint of athletes is about uncomfortable beds, reports Le Figaro.- I will soon lose my back, wrote Australian water polo player Tilly Kearns on a social network. Real cardboard beds, they are very hard, said track and field athlete Whitney T from Côte d'Ivoire.
Therefore, for the comfort of athletes in the Olympic village - with a stretch we will give a four.
But to whom we, the Belarusians, will definitely and deservedly give the highest score - 10 points - is Olga Vlasova, the head coach of the Belarusian national team in trampoline gymnastics, two medals - out of two possible - gold and silver, despite all the sanctions and spokes in the wheels from the International Olympic Committee - the result is amazing.
From now on, the Belarusian - Ivan Litvinovich - is the only two-time Olympic champion in this sport on the planet: we say thank you - we say for their work to Ivan and young Violetta Bardilovskaya and take our hats off to their coach Olga Anatolyevna. The Olympics continue - together we are rooting for the Belarusians.
