It was possible to see everything on the streets of Paris during the last two weeks during the Olympic Games.
Probably, everything could have been expected, but hardly anyone could have imagined that an Olympian, from a large and elite delegation such as the Australian one, would end up in detention.
French portals announced on Wednesday morning that one person was detained because he was caught buying cocaine from street dealers, and the next day everyone realized that a kind of scandal was the work of an Australian Tom Craig - who represents his country in field hockey.
Photos were released, Craig can be seen sitting on the sidewalk in handcuffs while police officers surround him - he didn't do badly, just a warning, but the damage was done, especially to his Olympic team.
"I apologize to everyone for what happened in the last 24 hours. I take responsibility for my actions, but they are only mine and in no way reflect the values that my family, teammates, friends, people from the sport I play stand for and the Australian Olympic team. I embarrassed everyone and for that I am very sorry," said Craig.
And so he cast a pall over all the good that the Australians have done so far in the Olympics. And they did a lot - these are their most successful Games in history, until last night they won a total of 41 medals, of which 18 were gold (they also have 12 silver and 11 bronze).
Their hockey team, in which Craig played an important role, was eliminated in the quarter-finals in Paris, so they had no chance to defend the silver won in Tokyo three years ago.
Craig was, of course, the first topic in the media, and the circulation "L'Ekip" in yesterday's issue paid attention to the painful elimination of the handball player in the quarter-final match with Germany (the tragic man was Dika Mem), but more space was given to the French volleyball and basketball players who qualified for the finals and semi-finals of the Games the night before last.
"That damn dog," wrote "L'Ekip" alluding to how Mem took the winning match into extra time by giving the Germans the ball seconds before the end of regulation.
The nation also believes in football players - the famous team Thierry Henry today from 18:XNUMX at the Prince's Park the game for gold with Spain.
"The bet on Henri has worked," said "L'Ekip", adding that Henri barely made the team for the Olympic Games, but also showed that he can lead it to the finals.
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