About that symbolic handoff of the Oly flag …
A blazing Olympic cauldron is seen at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The cauldron was lit early Wednesday morning at the stadium that was the site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and will host those of 2028.I had feared that the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris — and in Versailles, in Marseille, in Tahiti — would be, I don’t know, too French, or something, whatever that means.
I am such a homer that I only want the Americans to win. Most of us are that way. But I was fascinated to see how much, in conversation, on social media, in the letters to the editor, other Yanks were able to root on various other underdogs. I don’t like it when the Chinese win, ‘cause cheaters, performance-drug style, and was happy that we won more medals than them, and at least tied them with 40 golds. I did like it very much when Taiwan, which can’t even call itself that — rather, Chinese Taipei — because of internationalist kowtowing to Beijing, beat the mainland in badminton for gold.
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