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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Paris

Olympic closing ceremony revised ‘umpteen’ times after opening event furore

The executive director of the ­closing ceremony at the Olympic Games has admitted he had to revise the script “for the umpteenth time” after a ­backlash against the opening event on the Seine.

Thierry Reboul reiterated his insistence that there had been no attempt to parody the Last Supper in the first spectacle but that it had referenced a 17th-century Dutch painting of the Greek Olympian gods.

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