Non-stop commentary during part of the Paris 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony angered some netizens on France 2 on Sunday night.
Goodbye Paris 2024! The Paris Olympics are truly over. The cauldron went off during the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games, held on Sunday evening at the Stade de France, and broadcast on France 2. The ceremony honored the Paralympic athletes and the “French touch” with 24 artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kungs. or Martin Solveig.
To support viewers, France Télévisions once again called on its journalists Matthieu Lartot and Alexandre Boyon and host Daphné Bürki. During previous ceremonies, Daphné Bürki received a lot of criticism from viewers for putting too much emphasis on her work in preparing the ceremonies, with director Thomas Jolly, but also for announcing what was going to happen before the viewers- discover him in the show.
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For Sunday night's closing ceremony, Daphné Bürki was much less talkative. On the other hand, Matthieu Lartot and Alexandre Boyon talked non-stop in the first part where the Paralympic athletes paraded. To the taste of many netizens, they spoiled the party.
Among the comments posted on do they have speech bonuses or how do they work?”
Daphné Burki is at the Olympic Ceremonies, what mosquitoes are in the summer nights: always there to make us live hell!!!!!! And nothing happens! Nothing!!! We will never have peace! SILENCE!!! #closing ceremony
— SCROGNEUGNEU… (@WiiizBiiiz) September 8, 2024
Who is the idiot sound engineer who played music covering Daphné Burki's comments?
— jeankiri (@KiriJeankiri) September 8, 2024
Fortunately, the three comments remained silent during the performance of the 24 artists of “French touch” to allow viewers to fully enjoy it.
Daphné Bürki responded to the critics on TMC's “Quotidien” show a few days ago. She wore a T-shirt that read: “We've been secretly working with Thomas Jolly for 2 years,” a phrase she repeated a lot during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in July. The T-shirt will be sold and the profit from the sales will be donated to Secours Populaire.