Emphasis mine.
“We didn’t want everybody to go into a panic, we wanted them to be able to compete,” Lyles, wearing an N-95 mask, told reporters about 45 minutes after finishing in 19.70 seconds… Lyles added: “And you never want to tell your competitors you’re sick. Why would you give them an edge?”
The Paris Olympics are the first to be held without the pandemic-era bubbles of the Tokyo Games in 2021 and the Beijing Games in 2022. In Tokyo, athletes were tested every four days. In Beijing, they were tested daily. When athletes tested positive, they were placed in quarantine. Most were forced to withdraw from the Games entirely.
no bubbles but covid is still there
‘if we pretend something is not there maybe it will just go away on its own’
CW: SA
First I hear about the pedophile rapist participating in the 2024 games, and now this. The Olympics are such a fucking sick joke.
Interestingly, that’s likely one of the few very old traditions in Europe. Because as far as I know, nobody else has a similar characters nearby, but the Iranians do, they have 2 a modern one called haj firuz, who does more or less what the dutch guy does, and one, who was amalgamated into cyrus the greats father.
The idea is that siyavash (siya meaning black) was caused of raping one of his father’s concubines so is order to prove his innocence he had to ride between 2 piles of burning wood. If he survived he would be found innocent. This seems to be an ancient ritual to test oath breakers. How ancient? Of the 4 gods attested for bronze age indo Aryans, 2 are associated with contracts, one uses water to test innocence the other uses fire. So the ritual is at least that old. And associated mythological figures are likley as old. So that’s why he has a black face.
Anyway the test didn’t work, he survived but because he was given to a known sorcerer as a war when he was a kid they said he cheated, so he was sent into exile where he became governor of Khotan, where he married one of the daughters of Afrasyab(how has been amalgamated with some underworld characteristics) producing cyrus the great, and a daughter of peeran (who sounds a lot like the Slavic god of thunder) latter cyrus the greats henchmen murder his half brother.
So it’s not Zeus or Jupiter, but black Peter who is the last remnant of Indo-European religion in Europe.
There’s an entire Wikipedia article on the fuckups in the 2024 Olympics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics
And it’s super long too. A bunch of swimmers competed despite having Covid.
Absolute death cult.
they’ve also been feeding them shitty food, and multiple triathletes vomited after swimming in the Seine. this is turning out to be a bit of an embarrassment for Paris
Paris doesn’t have any other bodies of water that isn’t full of shit to show off?
