Olympics opening ceremony: Paris 2024 sorry for causing offence after complaints

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Olympics opening ceremony: Paris 2024 sorry for causing offence after complaints

Olympic Games organisers have said they are “sorry” that scenes in Friday’s opening ceremony caused offence.

A banquet sequence featuring drag artists in particular came in for criticism from ********** groups, who felt it parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s painting ‘The Last Supper’.

That famous 15th Century work depicts a key biblical scene.

The ********* ******* in France was among critics, saying the ceremony featured “scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity”.

A US telecommunications company, C Spire, said it would be pulling its advertising around the Olympic Games after being “shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies”.

The ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, said there was no intention to “mock or denigrate anyone” and explained the scene in question was designed to reference pagan gods.

“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,” Paris 2024 spokeswoman Anne Descamps told reporters on Sunday.

“On the contrary, I think Thomas Jolly did try to intend to celebrate community tolerance. We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence, we of course are really sorry.”

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