They started badly, they ended worse. The Paris Olympics will be remembered for a long time, and not necessarily in a positive sense.
The Olympic Games opened with a ceremony that was not outrageous, but ugly. Which is worse. And the Paralympic Games closed with a ceremony that was not useless, but embarrassing.
The other evening, at the official closing parade of the Paralympics on the Champs-Elysées, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, in the grandstand, got carried away by the enthusiasm of the public and began to jump to the rhythm of the chants “He who does not jump is not French”. Next to a representation of disabled athletes. In wheelchairs.
The famous esprit de finesse.
The gaffe was highlighted by all the French media with a video that is circulating mercilessly on the web, and the head of the Elysée ended up in the controversy like any Salvini singing: “Smell the stench, the Neapolitans are coming…”. Everyone has their own Capitaines.
Now. We do not want to be the ones, now, to fall into political incorrectness by saying that the disabled person, in this whole situation, is only one. The one who jumps.
We prefer about the Olympics – to put an end to an event that will be cited for a long time. But as an example of many things to avoid.
And for the rest, as Matteo Renzi, the Italian Macron, said before the last French elections: “If Le Pen wins, Europe will collapse. Instead, if Macron wins…” Also.