City Of No Lights: Olympics Host Paris Deals With Reported Massive Power Outage

Day un of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris is in the books, and while the first day of competition was great, heavy storms battered the City of Lights, and it got so bad that overnight, the power appears to have gone out in large portions of the city.

Around midnight, reports started circulating that the City of Lights had gone dark. While the reports and the cause of any blackouts have not yet been confirmed, some videos are floating around social media of what sure looks like a city in the midst of a major power outage.

Of course, people immediately made a connection to the impeccably timed apparent power outage and the opening ceremony which happened about 36 hours earlier and featured what sure looked to most people like a clear-cut mockery of the Last Supper.

I mean… the timing is rather ironic.

But, whatever the cause is, hopefully, any issues are rectified as quickly as possible so the Games can continue without any further issues… because there have already been enough of those.

We spent weeks talking about the Seine, which was so dirty that people weren't allowed to swim in it for a century. Now, it's been cleaned up with triathletes set to hit the water in a few days, but some of them are missing out on training sessions, per The Guardian, after the heavy rains that hit the city during the opening ceremony and the first day of competition had a negative impact on water quality.

Then there were the arson attacks that affected France's high-speed rail system just hours ahead of the opening ceremony.

And as if all of that wasn't already bad enough, there are also problems with the food in the Olympic Village.

Hopefully, for the sake of the athletes, things turn around in a hurry, because it seems like there have been nothing but problems for the first couple of days of the Olympic Games.