Paris 2024 organisers on Sunday (July 28) apologised to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games' opening ceremony that parodied Leonardo Da Vinci's famous “The Last Supper” painting.
This was the second apology over the last two days, with the first over an error made when the South Korean contingent was introduced as Democratic People's Republic of Korea during the parade in the opening ceremony.
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This was the second apology over the last two days, with the first over an error made when the South Korean contingent was introduced as Democratic People's Republic of Korea during the parade in the opening ceremony.
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00:00And clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.
00:20On the contrary, I think that Majoliet really tried to, really intended to celebrate community
00:26tolerance. That was his word yesterday. And looking at the result of the polls that we shared,
00:33we believe that this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are of
00:41course really, really sorry. It was a ceremony like no other, and those are games like no other.
00:47I think that our hosts, it's easy for me to say, and we should all be grateful and thankful,
00:53they have put together a vision for these games, which is unprecedented. It's an incredible vision
00:59for games. We're trying to showcase that in the best possible way.
01:23In France, artistic creation is free. It's the first article of the Law on the Freedom of Creation.
01:30I took advantage of it, like other freedoms in France. In this country, we are lucky to have that.
01:36There was no desire for me to send any more, how to say, militant messages.
01:44They were simply Republican messages. In France, we have the right to love each other as we want,
01:49with whom we want. In France, we have the right to believe or not to believe. In France, we have the right,
01:55we have a lot of rights. And it was the idea of making these values transparent through the ceremony.
02:04So we made it very clear from the IOC, an operational mistake was made. We can only apologize
02:11in an evening of so many moving parts that that mistake was made, and we apologize to
02:17to people from the Republic of Korea for that error.