Every Olympics is a political catastrophe. I've now watched all too many of them. They're huge events and all it takes is some controversy or a fuck up by some middle manager and the whole world freaks out.

Overall, this one East that bad on France's, except probably the river pollution thing (which I hope pushes them to long term cleanup efforts). Most of the rest was all the USA (we're #1 in being assholes to people) being assholes. Our pearl clutching about religious insensitivity, transphobic right wing hatred, and generally bring dicks was well over the top. So, that's not on France, but the US and our own swimming in Christian nationalist right wing sewage that spilled over onto the rest of the Olympics.

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