PARIS (AP)— If given the opportunity, Pharrell Williams would reinstate arts competition to the Olympics, restoring a tradition that has been absent for nearly 80 years.
Williams hopes to bring artistic competitions back to the world’s biggest sporting stage, beginning with a star-studded Louis Vuitton event in Paris on Thursday.
He strongly expressed his desire to see the tradition restored by the Olympics in 2028 the night before the Games’ opening ceremony.
“We get to remind people that at one point, the Olympics actually had the arts as a section that ran all these competitions,” Williams said before to the ceremony.
