The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024. It was Bacchus and not Jesus.

Was it really necessary to see a Last Supper? The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics did not fail to produce its grumps.

Thus, we saw in a same breath the French bishops, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the French far-left leader, Elon Musk and many American ultra-conservatives convinced of an interpretation of the Last Supper bordering on blasphemy. While if we are to believe the artistic director of the ceremony Thomas Jolly, it was indeed Dionysus, the Greek name for the Roman Bacchus, that he wanted to stage with the singer Philippe Katerine, naked and blue. “The idea was rather to have a big pagan festival linked to the gods of Olympus… Olympus… Olympism”. Bacchus deserved this tribute in this city of Paris, where no other has seen so much wine flow down the throats of its citizens in 2000 years. All that was missing was a small glass and an elbow-raising event on the Olympic programme…