It's Monday, August 12, 2024.

I'm Albert Mober and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and Events from a Christian worldview.

Well, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are now over.

The closing ceremonies brought to a conclusion games that just in terms of the general event the general impact will be

considered highly successful games and you have to know that in the world of the

Olympics there are two big factors that come into major play here in the forefront.

Disaster would come if either there had been a terrorist attack at the games involving

athletes or spectators or if there had been an absolute financial debacle.

And none of those things basically took place.

There was no major meltdown when it came to all of the arrangements,

the unbelievably complex arrangements for a modern Olympic Games.

Now there were controversies and we're going to be leaning into those

controversies beginning with the opening ceremonies. But we do need to recognize

that the bigger problem with the Olympics is that it is this massive event

drawing people from all these different countries, Olympic competitors who are supposedly

coming in the spirit of the Olympics themselves and it is

supposed to be one massive display of international amity goodwill cooperation

excellence achievement well you go down the list.

The original motto of the games in terms of the modern Olympics was Civitas Altias

Altias, Fortias, that means faster, higher, stronger.

Those ideals were articulated by the Baron Pierre de Cooper-Tant,

who was the man who really more than anyone else in the late 19th century

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