Olympic closing ceremony revised ‘umpteen’ times after opening event furore 

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was criticised for its depiction of drag queens, a transgender model, and a semi-naked singer sitting in a fruit bowl.

The executive director of the closing ceremony at the Olympic Games has admitted that he had to revise the script “for the umpteenth time” after a backlash against the opening event on the Seine.

Thierry Reboul reiterated his insistence that there had been no attempt to parody the Last Supper in the first spectacle but that it had referenced a 17th-century Dutch painting of the Greek Olympian gods.