French and English voices decry Tom Cruise stunt planned for Olympics

Karen#1

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TONY ORTEGA
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Last week we reacted to the startling news that actor Tom Cruise would play a part in the Olympics Closing Ceremony on August 11 by bringing up the awkward spot it would put Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in.

Bass already has a complicated past with both promoting and denouncing Scientology, and if she participates in a stunt with Cruise involving the handover of the Olympic flag from Paris to LA, which will host the next games in 2028, how will that make her look?

And now others have been raising questions about why Cruise, the Scientology celebrity who may be the single biggest reason the embattled group remains in business, gets to play a starring role in the Olympic flag handover.

French press association AFP talked to several anti-cult groups who said they were appalled at the message it sends. This, for example, is a paragraph from an English-language version of the AFP article that appeared in Le Monde:

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