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Agenda over athletes: How the Paris Games became a competition for woke gold
"I wanted no part of politics." Those words of Jesse Owens after the 1936 Olympics echoed in my mind as I watched the string of controversies emerge from the Paris games. From the scenes in the Opening Ceremony to even the food service in the Olympic village, the 2024 Olympics sometimes seemed like a clash not of individual athletes but of political agendas. The Opening Ceremony of director Thomas Jolly is still raising protests from religious and other groups over two controversial segments. In one scene, three young people are shown flirting in a library while reading books like "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (Dangerous Liaisons) and "Le Diable au Corps" (Devil in the Flesh). They

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