It must be believed that a fate is besetting the countries organizing the Olympic Games. Like Greece, their inventor 2,800 years ago in Olympia, welcoming them back to Athens in 2004 only to declare bankruptcy a few years later.
Or the 2012 Olympics in London, followed by the Brexit referendum in 2016, this bad-tempered reaction from the British people. “Bread and circuses”, they said in the Roman Empire of the 1st century, at the beginning of its decline. If the inauguration of the Olympics on the Seine promises to be grandiose, it seems that there is a shortage of bread in the streets and houses. The word “deficit” (“it is lacking” in Latin)… ‘It is lacking,’ in Latin, the word ‘def deficit’ (‘it is missing’ or ‘lack of’) in Latin is the word for a deficit.