“Beach party”, “a big disappointment”: The New York Times does not bid for the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games

In the United States, however, some journalists criticized the closing ceremony, and especially the corridor on the beach. “After the size and ambition of the Parisian exhibition, big bang, the move was a smile of self-indulgence. The Red Hot criticized, Billie Eilish moved and Snoop Dogg brought in the least unexpected guest, Dr. Dre, but I wonder what LA 2028 was thinking: he reduced them all to beach party entertainment”first criticized Jon Pareles, a cultural correspondent at the New York Times.

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The editor-in-chief of the American press, Sarah Lyall, goes even further, as she talks about a real failure: “After all the images of France – of Versailles and the Eiffel Tower – moving the proceedings to a beach hut painted by LA28 feels like a real disappointment“.