CNN —Every host country of the Olympic Games faces a reckoning.
But the world’s biggest sporting event holds a mirror up to a nation like few other events.
After a public investment of billions of dollars and years of preparations, what do we, the host country, want to show the world about ourselves?
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen took aim at Nakamura’s supposed “vulgarity,” suggesting that her representing France would “humiliate” the country.
“What is the point of holding the Olympic Games in France if we then hide who we are?” asked Marion Marechal, an arch-conservative whose party attracts the country’s disaffected Catholics.
Persons:
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France, Paris, tracksuits, New York City, Mali, Invalides