So far, I can sadly summarize my watching and reading about the Paris Summer Olympics in three basic words: sacrilege, filth and pedophilia.
Fortunately, I have watched a highly exciting men’s 100-meter dash, women’s equestrian and men’s volleyball when I have not been watching the Baltimore Orioles vie for first place in the American League East. So, my experience with the Paris Summer Olympics has not been all negative.
However, what is so sad is that I do not think that I would have written anything even remotely similar to what I wrote in this column to describe the last time Paris hosted the Summer Olympics in 1924.
First, during the evening opening ceremonies on the Seine River on July 26 the Paris Olympic organizers insulted 2.4 billion Christians worldwide. They deliberately mocked Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper (1495-98) on a river float by depicting a total of eighteen reprobate drag queens, a transgender model and head to toe blue-colored, half-naked corpulent Frenchman representing Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, debauchery and pleasure.
The Paris Olympic organizers were trying to depict diversity and tolerance, but I saw only perversity and sacrilege
The neo-pagan river float most notably angered such worldwide religious and secular leaders as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Minnesota Robert Barron, the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), former President Trump, the Roman Catholic French Bishops’ Conference and especially the Vatican .
The Paris Olympic Committee deceitfully tried to apologize two days later on July 28. They explained that their sacrilegious float only depicted the ancient Greek god of Dionysus, and not Jesus Christ and his twelve disciples. They mendaciously boasted how the float was not mocking Christianity but promoting “community tolerance.”
However, the previous day a “Paris 2024 Olympics spokesperson ” revealed that the highly controversial river float resembling “The Last Supper” was in fact inspired by the famous DaVinci mural in Milan.
Second, I read a truly disgusting article in the New York Pos t how Belgian triathlete Jolien Vermeylen “felt and saw things [that] I don’t want to think about” when she was swimming in a 1500-meter race in the Seine River on July 31.
The healthy 30-year-old Belgian triathlete was obviously swimming in a river full of s*** or as the French would say la merde. Hopefully, her Olympic team doctors gave her plenty of antibiotics and antibacterial soap for both her skin and hair after her swim.
Vermeylen clearly described the Seine much more as a semi-toxic cesspool than a safe swimmable or fishable river. I would hate to think what foul carcinogenic chemicals or sewage might have been in that water after a recent rainstorm. What is even more remarkable is that until July 16 competitive swimming in the Seine had “been banned since 1923 owing to health risks [my emphasis] .”
An anonymous French environmental whistleblower said three days before the Olympics began on July 26 that “the water [in the Seine] is very bad , it’s full of dirt and not proper for any activity. Also, the levels of chemicals, human feces, and other dirty things are very high, so bacteria like E. coli are everywhere.”
The Paris Olympic organizers should never have allowed the triathletes or other swimmers to compete in such filthy water. Surely, there must be at least one clean unpolluted river suitable for swimming in all of mainland France, Corsica, New Caledonia or French Polynesia?
However, Mon Dieu if another French city with a clean river suitable for swimming were to deglorify and detract from the luminous and intellectual brilliance of the “City of Light” (Ville lumière) or Paris.
Third, the Paris Olympic Committee allowed 29-year-old Dutch beach volleyball player and convicted child rapist Steven Van de Velde to compete in the Olympics. In 2016 the 6′ 6″ athlete was convicted of raping a twelve-year-old girl in Great Britain, and sentenced to four years in prison. He and his teammate advanced to the round-of-sixteen at the beautiful Eiffel Tower Stadium on August 2, but were thankfully eliminated on August 4 by Brazil.
My unbelievable question is why did the Paris Olympic Committee ever allow a convicted child rapist to compete in the Olympic games? According to the Associated Press , the International Olympic Committee, which is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, stated that “it was powerless to stop the Netherlands from sending an athlete who qualified in the usual way.”
I always thought that the French government in Paris under President Emmanuel Macron and not the International Olympic Committee should have decided, who ultimately is allowed to compete in France. In my opinion, Macron made a tremendous mistake in allowing this convicted child rapist and pedophile to compete in two-man beach volleyball.
At least Van de Velde was never given a medal at a podium, but unfortunately, he will be forever known as a former Olympian.
The Paris Olympic Committee made a huge mistake in allowing the perverse river float mocking Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper to participate in the opening ceremonies on July 26. It was a deliberate sacrilegious offense against 2.6 billion Christians worldwide.
Likewise, the filthy Seine River should never have been selected for any outdoor swimming or riverine events. Surely, a more suitable location could have been found somewhere either in mainland France, Corsica or elsewhere.
Lastly, 29-year-old Dutch beach volleyball player and convicted child rapist Steven Van de Velde should never have been allowed to compete in the Olympics. I cannot even begin to imagine the shock and embarrassment of the French government if Van de Velde had won a gold, silver or bronze medal.
I am looking forward very much to the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and especially the first college football came on Saturday, August 24 when Florida State plays Georgia Tech in Dublin, Ireland at 12:00 p.m. on ESPN.
Vive l’Amérique.
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