From Drones To Diables: What A Drag It Is At Paris Olympics

On one hand you can say the International Olympic Committee and its various sports federations have standards. For that reason, Canada is now being dog-piled for its soccer management using drones to spy on the practice habits of opponents, Although the real value of this is negligible, it is against the spirit laid down by 19th century Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin who restarted the Olympics when a drone was someone who went on too long at a dinner party.

Saturday it was learned that the Canadian women’s soccer team, defending Olympic champions, have been docked six points in the Olympic qualifying segment. That hampered hope of advancing to the knockout round (although the team rallied to win its first two games.). More to the point, the entire coaching staff for the women’s team has been suspended from FIFA events for a year. 

It’s hard to imagine a more humiliating faceplant— and downer for the entire Olympic team in Paris. What these people were thinking is hard to imagine. Perhaps they thought everyone else was doing it (the Ben Johnson Defence), and so that defends the droning. Whatever the intel they gleaned, it is clearly not worth invoking the wrath of the captains of world sport. 

On the other hand, the IOC’s moral standards for Opening Ceremonies at a Games seems to be a lot more fungible. We can still remember when an opening ceremony in Montreal in 1976 was people dancing around teepees and a few doves released to poop on the spectators. Ah the good old days when sport brought people together. 

What the world saw Friday was not that version of bringing people together. In fact it was the very opposite, as the organizing committee presented a divisive spectacle so alienating that many in France and elsewhere were left flabbergasted by the portrayal of modern France. Sure, it’s the French. They like to shock. They like people to talk about them. They like to flaunt.

But the sexual bacchanal they presented in the space usually reserved for sporting virtue was more like Fellini’s Satyricon than the five rings of Citius, Altius, Fortius. Yes, an ailing Celine Dion knocked it out of the park with her Edith Piaf-inspired finale. Lady GaGa did a fun fan-dance on the steps above the Seine. The light shows on the Eiffel Tower were breath-taking. The boatloads of rain-soaked Olympians floating beneath the Pont St. Michel? Nice try.

But that’s not what moved traditional viewers to turn off the TV or shut down the digital feed. Like the Canadian soccer coaches, people were left wondering what was the IOC doing in mocking the Last Supper with trans characters? There are an estimated 2.2 billion Christians in the world who’d rather not watch a naked blue-stained demon, his junk protruding beneath his scant towel, promoting the trans movement infecting the world at the moment.

Bearded characters in drag may be a hit on St. Denis Street in Montreal (and with squish Toronto Star fart catchers), but what place did it have in an Olympic ceremony? Ditto the “tribute” to the romantic 19th-century period of French literature in which horny boys hot for pickup flounced in a library among the works of Proust, deMaupassant, Verlaine and George Sand before adjourning behind a closed apartment door for a multi-partner romp in the sack.

There was more, much more, as organizers seemed intent on desecrating traditional French culture in favour of break dancing, twerking and generally amusing Jill Biden, who left her played-out husband behind in Delaware to seek new horizons with Spike Lee. In this fevered age it never hurts to suck up to the globalist Marxist cult working 24/7 to take control of finance, climate and communications. No doubt Thomas Jarry’s sexual-indulgence fantasy hit that mark.

Predictably, the midwit CBC Olympics panel prattled on about statue gender inequality in Paris, the “first gender-equal Games” and the “sustainability” of cardboard beds. More interesting will be the reaction of the Canadian Olympic sponsors such as Sobeys, Petro Canada, Coca Cola, SportChek and others. Did they know they were lending  their name to this gender bending? So far, crickets. But in America, C Spire, a telecommunications company based in Mississippi, said it would remove its advertising from the Olympics. Many viewers swore off the rest of the Games.

For those who don’t pay attention to French politics, this spectacle seemed a little self-defeating as tourist fare. But the French are currently pulling themselves apart in a grim tug-of-war. The Macron elites have made common cause with the radical left to stave off traditional France. (The intifada crew standing waiting to pounce again.) This Olympic ceremony was a four-hour FU to Marine LePen who speaks on behalf of Les Bleus who keep winning more votes but is hamstrung by electoral chicanery.

What galls many is that these Baz Luhrmans wannabes would never dare mock Islam (which is currently subverting France from within). Their mock defiance is tempered by the shadow of Paris’ Bataclan Theatre where so many were killed in the 2015 intifada attack. They may be obnoxious, but they’re not stupid. Let the Pope complain, who cares? But the ayatollahs? Lâche.

The Organizers and their political allies know you can’t un-see what they presented, so they’re offering tepid apologies: “If people have taken any offence, we are really sorry.” Sure. Just in case, the IOC is making strenuous efforts to shut down online the caustic images from Friday, hoping to circumvent a more global backlash against their spectacle. Anyone wanting to use the bearded ladies and androgynous kewpies for political purposes can take a hike.

As we said last week, never forget that confusion and chaos are the calling cards of the radical Left. Far from being a problem, the head-spinning reinvention of normal is their goal. Don't believe legacy media like Bruce Arthur who say it’s all a posh. They're happy for this chaos.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.