An American journalist who covered the Paris Olympics, as well as the last Tokyo Olympics, wrote a candid article on the American news site Business Insider about the disappointment he experienced at this year’s tournament. “I was spoiled in Tokyo and had high expectations for Paris, but I was so disappointed that I returned home earlier than planned,” he said. Reporter Manshine Logan said that at the Tokyo Olympics, held amid the COVID-19 pandemic, “I was able to feel the Olympic spirit that I saw on TV as a child. “Pride, patriotism and unity overcame the fear and loneliness of the pandemic.” He added, “Tokyo was efficient, clean and friendly. “We had certain expectations for Paris, which had previously hosted the Olympic Games twice,” he continued. However, he said, “Unfortunately, the Paris Games were far from what I had imagined,” listing specific reasons for his disappointment. First of all, even the temperature inside the hotel, around 25 degrees, was uncomfortable, and despite the harsh weather with a daytime maximum temperature of 36 degrees, there was no air conditioning at any of the locations we visited. He also said that the hotel where he was staying, which cost $200 (about JPY 30,000) a night, did not have air conditioning, and that it was “my fault for not checking beforehand.” Transportation was also cited as a major dissatisfaction. He also pointed out to the media that at the Tokyo Olympics, shuttle buses were provided to access all competition venues and related facilities from the hotels where participants were staying, making it easy to get around. However, he said that shuttle bus services were only available at a limited number of venues in Paris, and that no shuttle bus was provided from the hotel where he was staying to the basketball venue in Lille in northern France, which was a two-hour drive away. He also confessed that he felt “spoiled” at the Tokyo Games media center, where a variety of functional goods and souvenirs were provided, including “special Tokyo 2020 backpacks” and writing implements. Hoping to receive the same treatment in Paris, he joked, “I had saved some space in my suitcase, but all I was given was a Coca-Cola bottle.” The hotel breakfast was also disappointing. Breakfast consisted of stale French bread or a croissant with a banana or an apple, all of which was placed in a paper bag and hung on the doorknob of the room. “It’s easy to focus on the negative things, but there were also a lot of great moments in between the chaos,” Logan said. “Most of the food was good. Air conditioning or not, every restaurant we visited was worth the sweat. And I got to meet so many wonderful people, which made this experience worthwhile.”
The next Olympics will be in Los Angeles, the home of all the equipment liberal wokers. You’ll be treated to even worse political correctness dancing than in Paris.
>>12 Croissants were on the verge of disappearing because the process was complicated and unprofitable, but then Japan’s croissant-making equipment came along and it seems to be in use everywhere now.
>>14 I guess Paris and France have always been like this. It’s the same when you read the travelogues of writers and scholars who have studied in France since long ago.
He’s probably in good health (´・ω・｀) And if he has orange juice and jam, that’s a typical French breakfast. >He also expressed disappointment with the hotel breakfast. Breakfast consisted of stale French bread or a croissant with a banana or an apple, all of which was placed in a paper bag and hung on the doorknob of the room.
The LA Olympics will probably go back to the Tokyo style. It was crazy that the athletes were sacrificed because of the mayor of Paris’s weird environmental ideology. LA itself is a city with some of that, but they definitely won’t do what Paris did.
If you asked me what bread I hate the most, I’d have to answer French bread right away. I was shocked when I tried it for the first time and realized how bad bread without dairy was lol. It might be perfect for feeding prisoners in prisons or military camps, though.
The reporter who covered the trip also said that he was excited because he got a lot of souvenirs from the Tokyo Olympics, but when he went there with a suitcase that had a lot of room left, he was disappointed with only one Coca-Cola item. He said he was spoiled in Tokyo. But where did the budget go? It seems like it’s worse than Tokyo.
Paris Olympics: 1.47 trillion yen Tokyo Olympics: 1.644 trillion yen Even though they cut costs, it’s not that different from Tokyo during the coronavirus pandemic.
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