The filthy Seine is a fitting symbol of Macron’s chaotic Olympics

The good news for France is that their athletes have been winning some medals in the Paris Olympics. The bad news, well, that just keeps coming for the organisers and for Emmanuel Macron, who had wanted to use the Games to showcase his country. The latest debacle is the postponement of the men’s triathlon event this morning because the water in the River Seine is too filthy. Organisers can hardly say they weren’t warned.

Things clearly aren’t quite working out as Macron hoped. First there was the attack on the country’s rail network last Friday; the president had hoped the day would be all about the splendour of the Opening Ceremony, but instead the headlines were about the misery endured by nearly one million passengers as they sat waiting for trains that never arrived.

As for the opening ceremony itself, that was more a French farce than an Olympic extravaganza, an interminable parade of wokery that far from bringing the world together only served to underline the divisiveness of the dogma that progressives keep trying to ram down our throats.