...let's just say so far it hasn't been all brotherhood of sports and Fanfare for the Common Man.
Even one carrying the Olympic torch and dressed as a trashy chick.
Two men arriving with the Olympic flame. The erasure of women in all spheres of public life continues. pic.twitter.com/LYyM3YaPEG
— Kate Barker-Mawjee (@KateBMwriting) July 24, 2024
Freaks.
French police have had to set up an anti-terror parameter around the soccer stadium because those terrifying Israelis have arrived to *check notes* play soccer. The usual suspects are behaving badly and can't just let the games roll in the spirit of sportsmanship.
Around 1,000 French police officers will form an “anti-terror perimeter” around Israel’s opening football match against Mali at the Olympic Games in Paris after the game was designated as high risk.
The heavy police presence has been deemed necessary given the expectation of protests outside the Parc des Princes and in the stadium’s stands when the two teams meet on Wednesday evening.
France’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said the game had been identified as being high risk along with the tie between Ukraine and Iraq, which is being staged earlier in the south-eastern city of Lyon.
The two evening games pose the first major security test of the Games at a time of conflict in Ukraine and the middle east.
In a sign of the security jitters, some spectators trying to attend an early afternoon game at the Parc des Princes between Uzbekistan and Spain were unable to get to their seats for kick off after a suspicious bag forced police to close off a nearby area.
Soccer thugs, being what they are in their own right, didn't need 1000 French cops to ruin the inaugural game at the stadium. The Moroccans and Argentinians went to kicking the ball around the field until a call didn't go their way.
In what's known as a "pitch invasion," a large group of partisan hooligans charged onto the field and shut everything down, and the place erupted into chaos.
Argentina’s match against Morocco on the first day of men’s football at the Olympics was mired in chaos after a pitch invasion forced it to be suspended for over an hour, with play eventually resuming behind closed doors and the African side winning 2-1 after an equaliser by their opponents had been ruled out by VAR.
Cristian Medina’s goal for Argentina 16 minutes into stoppage time to level the score at 2-2 sparked wild scenes at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Etienne, with objects also thrown at the South American players by spectators in what had been an angry climate throughout. Argentina were booed by sections of the crowd in what appeared to be a clear response to footage showing their players chanting a song the French Football Federation has labelled “racist and discriminatory” following victory at the Copa America earlier this month.
Both sets of players were taken off the pitch by the referee, with the contest deemed to have been “interrupted” by Paris 2024’s official website. It was eventually announced that the final three minutes of the game would be completed behind closed doors, which proved the case – but only after Medina’s 106th-minute strike was disallowed for an offside infringement in the build-up. All in all, it was an ugly start to the tournament and one that will bring into question the ability of organisers to run a smooth and safe Games.
It's kind of interesting spectators can bring incendiary devices to fling at opposing players.
How is it that we Americans are always considered to be the violent nationality when it comes to sporting events? We don't do anything like these soccer whackos do.
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 24, 2024
The first scandal of the Paris Summer Olympics is a fact.
The game between Morocco & Argentina has been suspended after angry Moroccan fans stormed the pitch and the crowd threw firecrackers at the Argentine players after their equalizing goal pic.twitter.com/jeDZzKQ69z
Anyway, games start off with a bang.
ROBBERY💸💸💸
— Freddy🇩🇪 (@freddyCR7LA) July 24, 2024
Argentina equalize in the 116th minute. The biggest scandal in Olympics Football history.
Morocco fans have stormed the pitch, fire crackers were flying and absolute chaos erupted.
What a shame for the Olympics🤮pic.twitter.com/hJDTFZA9v7 https://t.co/wUSUcZxU0v
I hate soccer. Boring af.
As for other sporting events, they still haven't cleaned up the open sewer.
Oh. I spelled "Seine" wrong. French is hard.
Simply put: Nope, no chance I’d jump in the dirty Seine River. Paris Olympians may not have that choice. Let me explain.
If marathon swimming and triathlons are held in the Seine as planned, rather than at a backup venue, Olympians’ only choice could be to swim in the iconic river or withdraw from the 2024 Games. Although Paris Olympics organizers vowed to clean the river to safe swimming standards with a reported $1.5 billion investment, questions about the Seine’s cleanliness have lingered in the weeks leading up to the Games.
...People ingest about 32 milliliters, or a little more than an ounce, per hour of swimming, according to a 2017 study in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency and published by the Journal of Water and Health.
So when it comes to swimming in the Seine — which has been largely banned since 1923 — not a chance for me, even though Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo jumped in last week. Team USA Olympians are hoping for the best.
“It’s pretty disappointing that the Olympic organizers have really not locked in cleaning this venue up as far in advance as they should have, to the point where now the whole world is questioning whether it’s going to happen in time,” Team USA Olympic marathon swimmer Ivan Puskovitch said last month.
I don't know that "disappointing" is the descriptor I'd use.
And hey - guess what?! You'll never believe who's heading to Paris besides our athletes to, you know, cheer the team on and all that.
Now that he's a lame duck, guess DOCTOR Jill isn't so worried about the old goat's condition that she's willing to waste a single remaining second wringing every last royal perk out of her First Lady gig supervising help as they change his Depends.
The girl is outta there.
...This move from the First Lady shouldn't come as a surprise whatsoever. There is no more out-of-touch group of individuals than those at the top of the current White House administration. Plus, Joe Biden is now a loser who will lose power in the coming days, and not even his own wife can get past that fast-approaching reality.
A month ago Jill was congratulating her husband for answering questions in a debate like he was a toddler who ate all three pieces of broccoli on his plate. Since then her husband has dropped out of the Presidential race, he's been told to hide in his Delaware beach home until January, and Kamala Harris has taken over the top spot.
But hey, Paris is probably lovely in late July.
I have a bet with Bingley that this means POTATUS is NOT resigning in his little speech tonight. Jill would effin' kill him if he ruined her trip.
In keeping with that spirit of patriotism, the male flag bearer for the United States was announced.
Yeah. This sumbitch.
THIS is who was chosen as the U.S. flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 24, 2024
Anyone who has ever knelt for the national anthem should be disqualified from this honor. pic.twitter.com/2zNR95f5XI
What? Kaepernick wasn't available?
Somehow, none of this has me very enthusiastic about watching. The only thing I'll be doing is fervently praying for everyone's safety, especially the Israeli athletes.
But if anyone thinks I give two figs about race-baiting, America-hating millionaires who play a game professionally for a living winning, they got another thing coming.
They can jump in the Seine.
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