The Paris Olympics is Everything Wrong With Society

the 2024 Olympic Games will go down as one of the weirdest Olympics in history it seems like every single day there's another controversy after controversy and when the games began with this sort of horrifying opening ceremony everyone knew it was going to be weird but on the other hand it's really not that surprising at all as it seems the Olympics is just a mirror reflecting the current state of the world that we live in today it is a parody of modernity but how did the Pinnacle of sports something that was once considered a testament of

human Spirit determination and the relentless seit of exellence become as strange and corrupted as it is today almost bringing more division to the world than Unity with memes after memes coming out about the Olympics let's unpack it all and see what went so wrong from the beginning of the Paris Olympics you see the Olympics is always reflected the state of the world it was cancelled during World War I and 2 because of the wars and South Africa was even banned from participating in the Olympics between 1964 and 1988 all due to its apartheid policies however

the Olympics are meant to bring the world together rather than enforce any sort of Separation this goes back to the Olympic Origins where an Olympic truce was established in ancient Greece all this is meant for the Olympics for hundreds of years is a hold in hostilities in the name of granting athletes safe passage and promoting World Peace something which sounds great in theory but not so simple in reality you see all the athletes attending the Olympic Games have to agree to rule 50 guidelines about what they can publicly Express especially when it comes to political

and religious statements the international Olympic Committee otherwise known as the ioc has a set of rules that restricts demonstrations for political religious and racial propaganda at Olympic sites the purpose of this is to maintain the neutrality of the games and ensure that the focus remains on the athletes' performances and international Unity through Sports and it seems like it's the complete opposite of this and instead it's a perfect parody of the current world we live in in 2024 a period of escalating tensions globally cultural divides and deepening political issues even before the Olympics began there were

already protests regarding which countries could participate and which countries couldn't along with which people were able to participate and which ones weren't but the French government did their best to make sure it all went down as planned as they wanted to show Paris the city of love as the perfect place to visit which is why as Paris accepted the 2024 Olympics the French government accelerated the relocation of homeless individuals from the city to other regions France's government has ramped up its efforts to relocate homeless migrants out of Paris one year before it host the Olympics

at least 1,800 homeless people have been moved from the French Capital to one of 10 temporary shelters across the country since April they also cancelled emergency housing contracts to accommodate Olympic tourists choosing to prioritize the country's aesthetic and Commercial interests over the welfare of vulnerable populations almost as a metaphor for how social media is used painting a picture of the beautiful parts of our lives and hiding everything bad from those around us but even still this is always normal for every Olympics Games in the recent years but the truth started unraveling as soon as it

began in the French government's aim to make the Olympics the cheapest Olympics in history many Olympians were confronted with a very strange situation cardboard box beds no air conditioning and small rations of food were all that the Olympians were given and if that wasn't bad enough there was a significant safety issue as dozens of Olympians were robbed attacked and harassed Logan Martins one of Australia's cycling Olympians shared a video of his vanan after he had been broken into so our van got broken into last night luckily my bikes weren't in there although my bike bags

were in there with some things in it crazy start of the trip personal items including his wallet and backpack were stolen but thankfully not his bicycle which could have actually meant he would never be able to compete or would have to Fork out a bunch of money to cover the costs and with the added stress it probably wouldn't have been great for his race in other cases a feder Australian who was the coach of the national hockey team found various unauthorized transactions on his bank accounts following the theft of his bank card Japanese rugby 7s

play reported the loss of a significant amount of cash and valuable jewelry all of this led to many Olympians opting to find close hotels instead of staying in their provided for accommodation already a huge FY on the ioc's part but while the athletes were complaining about their experience and the ramping crime that was surrounding them nobody was preparing for the visual crime of the opening ceremony now no matter what angle you take on this left or right the outrageous 20124 Olympics opening was one of the weirdest most dystopian and arguably Blasphemous ceremonies we've ever seen

I mean the main act on the opening nights included a rendition of the Last Supper painting by Leonardo da Vinci now while the ioc and the choreographer off the opening ceremony made claims that was really rendition of the Feast of dius there were clear indicators that showed this wasn't really the case at the center of the table was Barbara Butch wearing a halo-like sun image reminiscent of traditional depictions of Jesus Christ and Catholic art she posted a story celebrating the new gay Testament only to delete it later as the controversy over the situation Rose now

no matter what you think this definitely seems at least to be a mockery of the faith that 2.6 billion on Earth follow and something that clearly goes against the ioc's own expectations according to rule 50 but even if you were to agree with the objection that it was just a representation of anything Christian the ioc still used this moment for something most of the world doesn't agree with people dancing promiscuously on the center stage in one of the most fused live sporting events in history an opening ceremony that has nothing to do with the Olympics

one where this random woman was in the center stage instead of somebody with the physique of an athlete in fact this entire thing had nothing to do with Athletics and was deeply controversial for many people around the world already people were turning off the TV not watching this just because of this opening ceremony but then the I would take even more Weir stances they would force service to duct tape crosses showing on their boards and prevented athletes from wearing hijabs crosses or anything that shows their religious beliefs this mared with other failures such as calling

South Korea by North Korea's formal name lering the Cena it was at 3:30 this morning this water was tested again the data showed risky levels of eoli bacteria again and it's no surprise the sen is dirty for a century swimming was banned until the Olympics came here but plans to promote Paris have turned to embarrassment the men's Triathlon postponed hours before it was due to start here the Olympic flag was raised upside down at the opening show along with a bunch of horrific viewing experiences to those who paid nearly 2,000 Euros to watch the ceremony

live it always seemed like a giant failure that spread across social media it was only once the world roared back with outrage over the scenario that the ioc gave a half-hearted apology for did things seem to change but little did people know what they had in store for the 2024 Olympics what would happen if you dropped your Vape from 40,000 ft in the air well you might want to find out once you've tried fume fume is an award-winning flavored air device that fills the void ditching a bad habit can leave as you still have something

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code on screen to get your free fume topper when you order your journey pack today the 2024 Olympics has probably been the most covered Olympics in history as each athlete has share their experiences on social media and as viewers watch together and shed their opinions on every moment in every sport it's had a lot of good bad and really ugly good in the sense that it's allowed athletes to make a personal connection like never before take the surfing in the 2024 Olympics this is the only sport that is 10,000 Mi away from France taking place

in the French Polynesian Island Tahiti this has also meant that the sports doesn't have aive audience but the athletes have had their opportunity to share their unique experience with the rest of the world from having their own cruise ship as their version of the Olympic Village to an inside look as Surfers prepared for the Olympics ground coverage not provided by the ioc additionally there was a life-changing moment as one Brazilian Surfer Gabriel Medina scored a near perfect 9.90 the photographer capturing the moment went from 2,000 Instagram followers to 200,000 in just a couple of days

the meme surrounding moments of the Olympics have burst out in every way but one man in particular has stolen the show of the Olympics receiving more than 5 minutes of fame he became an internet sensation to Meme and the parody you'd expect to gain popularity during the Olympics the silver medal turus shooter Yousef stood out from all of his competitors who would usually wear special glasses used to focus on targets and cover their other ey from All Vision but this absolute Legend just showed up one hand in pocket and took a moment to take his

shot and receiving a silver medal for doing so social media ate this up and if you haven't seen the meme about youf you're hiding under a rock it's amazing how his Fame spread in moments and he became the most popular person on Earth for just one day but it also perfectly encapsulates our digital era his moment of Fame is a clear snapshot of how social media can amplify single unique moment into a global phenomenon yet it wouldn't be surprising if almost everybody forgets about this moment in just a week here today gone tomorrow the contempary

world's attention span is just so short which is what's so funny about these Olympic moments because as social media brings us close to events and people we would never otherwise encounter it also ushers us swiftly from one Fascination to the next often without a backward glance but this also comes with a very disturbing side as we'd see on August 1st on August 1st about a week into the Olympics Algerian and Main khif would compete in a boxing match against Italy's Angela Kini in the welterweight division the fight only lasted 46 seconds as Angela would take

two deep blows to the face instead of completing the match she chose to Forfeit crying this is unjust and refusing to shake her opponent's hands she instead fell to her knees crying as she realized her Olympic dreams have been shattered during her first fight the media quickly picked this up and it went completely viral reporting how the Algerian boxer had previously been banned from competing in the world championships because she failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests famous people like JK Rowling Elon Musk and even Logan Paul all shared their opinions over the situation even Donald

Trump came to the party using this as a political moment to say I will keep men out of women's sports posting a picture of the Algerian as they punch Angela in the face but the moment quickly spiraled the whole situation was seen as a male born boxer fighting against a biological female obviously given the Algerian a huge Advantage from having so much testosterone and a general male physique with people pointing to the fact that she was disqualified from the Women's World Championships in New Delhi for failing a gender eligibility test however this wasn't for the

reason that most of the media seem to point out you see Algeria is a country that criminalizes same seex sexual activity between men and between women and their laws prohibit the possibility to change legal so the assumption that they would send somebody who was trans to the Olympics did seem kind of crazy to begin with the truth came out that she actually had a disorder of sex development a rare condition where a baby's reproductive organs don't develop the typical way before birth leading to an ambiguous genital appearance these conditions might not be apparent until puberty

but can lead to incorrect sex assignment to birth especially where medical resources are scarce meaning the Algerian was assigned as a woman at Birth and grow up as such but this wasn't the information that was shared rapidly and instead even more outrage poured over the Olympics something that would only happen in 2024 the echo Chambers we confine ourselves to allow the world to make a strong belief about something without really knowing the full context here just sparking more cultural divide that's already spreading across the world today and while there might still be reason to be

upset over the situation you can't really blame the boxers and another lightweight woman boxer L yoing who has the exact same condition for competing in the Olympics rather it seemed to be the ioc's failure once again to actually clarify what makes Fair fights in the Olympic boxing ring the international boxing Association which previously banned KY from competing in his competitions took a stand after Angela Kini forfeited her Olympic match and as a result Angela will now receive $50,000 in a statement the IBA president tore into the ioc's Thomas Buck calling him evil for what he

was doing to women's sports as the IFC failed to give proper guidelines about the entire situation and other reason that athletes like linting and khif were able to join in on the sports in the first place the reality is this probably isn't about political beliefs more so about fairness and even more so that women athletes are in danger and could face some serious physical consequences as a result so the ioc has addressed this officially explaining that quote National boxing federations must reach a consensus around a new International Federation in order for boxing to be included

on the sports program of the Olympic Games in La 28 but while there's been a lot of noise over these two contestants a really another controversial contestant to join the 2024 Olympics was Steven vanilda a Dutch volb player and a convicted child ARA back in 2014 van dilda friended a 12-year-old girl on Facebook flew from his hometown in the Netherlands to England specifically to meet with the girl gave her alcohol and allegedly doing very bad things to her multiple times he eventually got convicted of aring an individual under the age of 13 and 2016 and

was sentenced to 4 years in prison this happened just when his athletic career was taking off and the judge who gave him his sentence went on record to say quote your hopes are representing your country as an Olympic Athlete now lie as a shattered dream and almost everybody believed this was the end of of his career as it should be but just 13 months later he was suddenly released from prison and still put on the Olympic team for the 2024 Olympics That's right The ioc Knowing of this particular circumstance have even given vanilda special privileges

that other Olympians don't have he was given a commodation outside of the Olympic Village he doesn't take any interviews or talk to the Press during the Olympics and has protection in case of any circumstances which is really crazy that after being convicted of such an awful crime he's been protected more than any other Olympia all the while it's easy to argue that allowing a criminal to compete contradicts the core values of the Olympics and while the ioc has done what it can to bring a truce to its athletes both Israel and Palestine joining the Olympic

games has caused even more tensions it seems like the infamous rule 50 isn't being followed with the current war between Hamas and Israel it's a political issue that has left the world divided and so every time a Palestinian or Israeli has competed in the Olympics it's been met with some sort of controversy leading up to the game a French MP said that Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics and the backlash to this was huge and then the Palestinian Olympic Chief made a point that he and the team Would Not Shake any Israelis

hands during the Olympics despite the agreed upon truce that comes with competing in the Olympics this has come with multiple protests Israelis entering the country and competing which is why the French police are now having to take extra precautions around Israeli athletes and then others claim that Palestine should never have been allowed in the first place either with the vision spreading all across social media about the situation all of this is why the 2024 Paris Olympics is really much more than just a series of athletic contests it has become a profound reflection of the world's

current state which makes idiocracy feel like less and less of a distant future and more just our coming reality which is why there is no doubt the Olympics will come to be known as the parody of 2024 thanks to fum for sponsoring this video