Watching the Paris Olympics will be difficult for most people in Russia — and in the view of its media, it's not really worth the effort.
People watch the television broadcast of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France via Kazakhstan satellite channel sitting in the Waterloo pub & bar in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 26, 2024. Watching the Paris Olympics will be difficult for most people in Russia — and in the view of its media, it's not really worth the effort.
The last time the Olympics weren't on TV in Russia — which has won the second-largest number of medals, counting the Soviet era — was in 1984, when the Soviet Union boycotted the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. “The Paris Olympics is an amazing event, if not to say a phenomenon: Competitions in individual disciplines have just just started, the opening ceremony has not even taken place, and so many scandals have already accumulated that they will be enough for several Games,” Sovietsky Sport newspaper reporter Alexander Shulgin wrote Thursday.
Shulgin, seemingly smarting from criticism about the facilities at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, suggested Paris may face an opening ceremony embarrassment similar to Sochi's, when a display of the Olympic rings malfunctioned.
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