CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS.

 




Ok.
So it's not the UEFA Euros from the EU, nor is it the Copa America from the Hard Rock or Bank of America stadiums.

Since the 1968 Dwile Flonking inclusion-bid was dismissed by the IOC, I've personally had a love/hate relationship with the global sporting event that promises us Faster, Higher, Stronger.

I openly admit, I'll have half an eye on Team GB and Ireland in the Track & Field.
I'll also have a keener eye on Lyles, Richardson, Bekele, Duplantis, Bol, Cheptegei, and Mahuchikh as they overcome their own personal adversities, and strive for that pinnacle gold medal.

But will anyone watch the other 31 sporting events?
Maybe the hockey to see the Aussie that amputated his own finger to compete?
Maybe the South Sudanese Bright Stars in the basketball?

I won't watch the cycling (and never will) because of the Ineos involvement.

I won't watch the beach volleyball because it's terribly boring!

And I'd feel like a hypocrite as I did at FIFA 2018, if I cheered on the Russian or Belorussian athletes sans drapeaux.

The French have allegedly spent less on these games than the last four host countries, which some would consider progress.
They've cleaned-up the River Seine, and imposed kilometre after kilometre of cycle paths and pedestrian freeways on the city of Paris.

The Front National continue to gain support in the banlieues rouges of Malakoff, Ivry and Clamart.
And the cost of the prime seats for this evening's Opening Ceremony make Lords or Wimbledon debentures look like Latitude stewarding tickets.

The prize money for gold medallists is still dwarfed by the weekly salary of most top flight footballers, but the footballers ARE there, sadly with no Team GB, and mostly finished before the ceremony has even started.

And Sodexo - the 18 BILLION Euro company responsible for fucking-over our migrant NHS workers and a huge swathe of our prison inmates, as well as feeding horse meat to our schoolchildren and elderly in care homes - are providing the catering!

I'm no fan of Macron.
And I worry daily about France.

But I do love sport, despite the fact it is constantly being exploited, harangued, commercialised, and monetised.

It's going to be a weird few weeks.
But at least we can boo the Canadian Women's football team for cheating with the tech favoured by warmongers, terrorists and perverts!

Liberte', Egalite', Fraternite'.
Citius, Altius, Fortius.

(Anyone for Ditissimus?)



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