10 things from the Olympics opening ceremony you may have missed
JUST for a laugh, would it have killed the French Olympic opening ceremony to float the Afghanistan team down the Seine in a rubber dinghy accompanied by Calais border control?Or, better still, put up a caption, underneath the big lass with the crown, at the Christian-baiting segment that read: “Her Last Supper? I doubt it.”Not literally, obviously, but they’d have had a right-on fit of the vapours at the mere suggestion of such political outrages.
They’ve since denied any such offence was intended, of course, but that was the cowardly and shameful hypocrisy at the heart ofwhich, from the moment France switched it from a stadium to the centre of Paris, was always going to add up to a political lecture rather than a celebration of sport.
For the words were no sooner out of my gob than Hazel was saying: “We are celebrating now France’s place in theThese included Sandstorm by Darude and The Final Countdown by Europe. After seven years in the making, at an estimated cost of $130million, the opening ceremony casually insulted 2.
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