France: The Beijing Olympics 2008, Revisiting History to Build a New Future?

Type:

Book Chapter

Published:

2013

Publisher:

Routledge

This paper focuses on the French media coverage of the Beijing Olympic games. Based onthe analysis of a set of themes, this article points the fact that most of the French media described the Beijing games as ‘huge’ games; however, their feelings remained ambivalent. Indeed, French people experienced the Beijing Olympic Games in aparticular context, which significantly influenced their vision of the event. The Beijing Olympics were an indisputable success speaking of sport, of technical and organizationalaspects. But the political and human assessment, which was drawn up by the media, was in half tones. Whereas the work of the journalists was carried out completely normallywithin the framework of the Olympic event, some reticence was expressed about the political and human aspects of the event: the distrust towards the Chinese politicalregime remained strong.

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