A Tale of Two Olympics

In 2008, China spent over $300million on the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. It was the highest money ever spent on an opening ceremony. What China did with the opening ceremony was to tell a story about the history and heritage of the country going back centuries.

Before this time, China was the factory destination of the world. It was known as the go-to place for cheap labour but China wanted to change the narrative and showcase their country as the next generation technology centre of the world.

They did this, knowing that the world was watching, some were watching live while some will watch later.

The effect was shown later by progressive growth in the economy of China, there was a geometric growth in the number of tourists coming to the country, and industries who moved to invest in China. Few years down the line China has become the top 3 economies in the world. Occassioned by very strategic planning and execution.

France was given the same golden opportunity to write their name in gold, but they chose mediocrity by deciding to ridicule Christians with three clear messages: a bull, worship, a pale horse being ridden by death and a parody of the last supper.

There are at least over 2billion professing Christians and more than that number will be sympathetic to Christians. The organisers of the Olympics did not give that a thought when planning and eventually putting out the most shameful opening ceremony in modern history.

The Paris Olympics have come and gone and the events and economy of France will tell the world how they have fared with their opportunity of hosting the Olympics.