10,500 athletes from all over the globe will gather to compete in the SUMMER OLYMPICS in Paris and other parts of France. However, frustration has been expressed to the Government over tax dollars being spent on the Games and not on helping the needy or the poor areas within the capital city. The anger of some Parisians is being channeled into the River Seine, their human waste entering the river at the exact moment President Macron and French mayor Anne Hidalgo are supposed to swim in it to promote the games. This as the International Olympic Committee is being called hypocritical for banning Russian and Belarusian athletes due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, while ignoring the conflict in the Middle East. On this episode of Perspective, Scottie Nell Hughes asks her panel of sports experts (Sports analyst Steve Christakos, Sportscaster Ben Holden, and Helen Lensky, Prof Emeritus at Toronto U and author of “Inside the Olympic Industry – Power, Politics & Activism”): Will an event that’s supposed to unite the world in the name of sportsmanship –and to showcase the best of a country– leave a tarnished and disappointing reflection on France?
