White privilege is organising a shitty Olympics and no one questions your integrity. Swimmers are swimming in a river which has open drain pipes from the city, filled with shit and other kinds of waste. They didn't even try to hide it. Imagine if it was an African or Asian country. Just imagine!
I could be entirely making this up but wasn't this actually a thing with Rio? Like people freaking out about the water quality? At least mentioning it more than they ever did with Paris (just to buttress your point)
Enough people questioned it for french politicians to swim in that river themselves just to prove a point.
Damn my wife was just saying this last night
and this is why the Olympics will never be in a country that is on the continent of Africa nor any Asian country that isn't named Japan, China, or South Korea. It's not even about the games anymore. That's why athletes sleep in shit conditions. it's about tourist dollars and ad revenue. that's it.
French shit doesn't smell!
Memories of the BBC reporting, scandalised, on the evictions that had occurred to make space for Beijing 2008 while ignoring the ongoing evictions, on their doorstep, for London 2012.
If someone is killed from a wastewater infection, the city should be charged with merde-er.
During one of the fencing events, the commentators were talking about how lucky the athletes were, to have the competition take place at the "iconic Grand Palais", the so-called "birthplace of fencing." European white privilege is on another level.