More  on the Olympics Skit

 This controversy about the Olympics skit, let's consider whether the ancient Olympics involved crosses, banquets, long tables, and the LGBTQ community.

   On a thread beneath a newspaper editorial that refers to the Olympics skit, a poster notes, "Christians didn't invent, nor do they have a monopoly on the ideas of a cross, banquets, or long tables."
   
   What does a cross or banquet or long table have to do with the Olympics? From my googling, I could not find much. I found no connection for crosses, long tables and drag shows and LGBTQ-type involvement.

   Banquets? I did find this, in Britannica: "The Games were later spread over four days, followed by a fifth devoted to the closing-ceremony presentation of prizes and a banquet for the champions."
   It is the Olympics were are dealing with here, not ancient Greek practices in general. Still, let's look at the ancient Greek practices. They did have crosses in ancient Greece, as the early Christians had them. I did not find red crosses, though. Nor did I find a cross with the bottom arm (if I can call it that) stretching longer than the other three. That cross might be used but by Christians going back sometime from today, but not to ancient Greece. Red represents the blood of Christ, so that the cross in the Olympic's presentation had a red cross might be of significance.

   Did the ancient Greeks have banquets? Yes, we read in National Geographic, "In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women, wine, and song." Long tables, you ask? They became prominent in Medievil times.

   So, some of these things were present in ancient Greece. However, I found little connection between  them and the early Olympics. So why were they in the Olympics skit? Can anyone explain that?