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Never mind, the beach volleyball looks splendid :)

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Some people aren't happy

Paris Olympics crowd boo Dutch rapist Steven van de Velde during opening match
Van de Velde, who was imprisoned in 2016 for raping a 12-year-old British girl, has been a controversial figure at this summer's Games. He was handed a four-year prison sentence for his actions but served only 12 months. The Dutch star arrived in France earlier this week under tight security.

And jeers rang out at a packed stadium as the 29-year-old took to the sand court at Champs de Mars park under the Eiffel Tower. He was then booed again as he was introduced to the crowd for his Olympic debut.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other...booed-33342547

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I'm surprised he was picked by his country. That's not going to go well down with most people there even if he did serve (some of) his term.

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A quote from the BBC article

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On another note, as you might of guessed, someone somewhere managed to complain they were "offended" by the ceremony.

:rolleyes:

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I think they had a right to be.

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It's a bit confected, isn't it? The Last Supper has been parodied/invoked thousands of times by now. It's so famous that it's been used as a reference many times. I've seen comics do it, The Simpsons did it, South Park has done it, Lost did it, House MD did it, and Battlestar Galactica did it as a poster to advertise themselves.

That arrangement has to be one of the most used motifs in the history of Western art.

The cat is long out of the bag for The Last Supper being some untouchable work.

Re: French train network hit by 'malicious' arson attacks hours before Olympics cerem
 

Cancel Culture snowflakes.

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In France people have been slaughtered for less when it was another of the world’s major religions.

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It was a Dionysian Feast, not the Last Supper...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-dionysus.html

https://www.today.com/news/paris-oly...rsy-rcna163929

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I think the part with the blue guy singing was Dionysus but there was a cut where they panned out from the table before that - without him - which I think pretty much was The Last Supper. Again, it's too iconic a reference for it to be unintentional surely.

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:D

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Topic was on disruption but now more generally Olympic based so : enjoyed the Rugby 7's but struggling to find the archery. BBC showed the GB match(es) but not the others. They show other sports without GB participation so they should make the archery and other sports also available. Isn't that why we have the red button to select the event we want, navigating BBC iPlayer is a pain?

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Vandals target French telecoms network as far-left activist arrested over rail attacks ahead of Paris Olympics

https://news.sky.com/story/far-left-...mpics-13185452

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European Olympic broadcast rights are now with Discovery Sports, not the BBC. UK legislation means Discovery is compelled to make a certain amount of it available to the BBC but the BBC doesn’t have the rights to do wall-to-wall red button coverage like it did in 2012.

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Yes, just as everyone else has the right to dismiss them as idiots desperately trying to be offended. ;)