On July 22, Beijing time, the Paris Olympics had a new variable, and the open-air opening ceremony encountered huge controversy, and many delegations considered not sending athletes to participate.
The Paris Olympics will be a very, very interesting top event in the next month, and our Chinese Legion has also sent 405 people to participate, and this scale is not the top three among all delegations, which is enough to show the influence of this sports event.
You must know that in previous Olympic Games, the number of our Chinese delegation was often in the top three, but this time it was only ranked fifth, indicating that there are more athletes from other countries, United States sent 597 people, and the host France also has 570 people, all of which are very large teams.
This time, in anticipation of a classic moment in sport, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics will be a completely open-air opening, unlike previous ones. What are the plans of the Paris organizers? It is to invite hundreds of countries and delegations, a total of 6,000 or 7,000 athletes, who will float on the Seine in 85 boats, and then sail to the finish line, in an open-air format to receive the attention of hundreds of thousands of spectators on both sides, and in this way to welcome the opening ceremony.
This time it was completely open-air, wasn't our previous opening ceremony in the gymnasium? But this time it was different, the preparations were carried out on the Seine, but in this case, many delegations were seriously considering not sending athletes to the opening ceremony.
There are two reasons, one is based on safety considerations, and the preparation recommends that the athletes not participate in this opening ceremony, after all, it may not be very safe now, even if the Paris organizers were fully prepared at that time, saying that they would not have a problem, but this kind of open-air opening ceremony, you let the athletes say that direct contact with the audience, which is very dangerous. Therefore, some of the Yu delegations are ready to consider recusing themselves, or suggesting that the athletes do not need to attend the opening ceremony.
There is another one, that is, maybe this time you sailed on the Seine like this, and it was not so relaxed. In fact, the Seine River is not as fascinating as imagined, relatively polluted, and even smelly in some areas. Your athlete will be more or less affected by taking a boat to pass over it, what if there is some unexpected situation, or even affect the detection of the athlete behind the athlete, and affect the subsequent competition, what should you do? Therefore, some delegations have now advised athletes not to participate in this open-air opening ceremony, so this opening ceremony in Paris has not yet started, and there is already a big controversy.