Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am dying laughing at the Australian woman. Is this a hoax? She got a free trip to Paris to basically roll around on the floor. Well played.
https://x.com/thealfoster/status/1821930985908531451?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg
https://x.com/jonmoxieys/status/1821965757154259345?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg
It was her stand against the establishment.
Anonymous wrote:I am dying laughing at the Australian woman. Is this a hoax? She got a free trip to Paris to basically roll around on the floor. Well played.
https://x.com/thealfoster/status/1821930985908531451?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg
https://x.com/jonmoxieys/status/1821965757154259345?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg
Anonymous wrote:
If anyone has Peacock. You can go where the menu is on the left and it has an Olympic option. Then go to all sports and find breakdancing. At around 36 minutes, 1:21, and 2:03 you can see her wiggle around on the floor and hop like a kangaroo. She is just so bad. I don't get the sport but all the other women are athletic at least and I couldn't copy any of their moves. But seriously, you watch Raygun and it is seriously embarrassing. The clip most people are playing is at 2:03. The one where she wiggles like a spider and hops like a kangaroo. Any fit teen or 20 something with some musicality could do a better job. I really don't understand how no one else in Australia was chosen.
Raygun is not building a breakdancing culture anywhere, She has singlehandedly has ensured that breakdancing won't ever be in the Olympics again. She scored ZERO points after all three rounds. In group B where Raygun competed the winner had 42 points, second place 25, and third place 23. Raygun got zero points after three rounds. Not even 1 point.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m not impressed and don’t think it belongs in the Olympics.
I bet you play pickleball.
lol. 😂 I’ve been know to kick a ball on a pitch and run the MCM a few times, but I’ve never played pickleball.
You don’t break either I bet.
Anonymous wrote:
This is why we can't have nice things. Or fun.
So I looked into this. I thought maybe I should feel sorry for the woman, athletes can choke, and maybe it was cruel for people to be making fun of her. Alternatively, I thought it may be possible she was led up the garden path, told she was good break dancer when she wasn’t, and I can’t imagine anything more humiliating than realising you are in fact not a talented athlete on the world stage.
Turns out Rachael Gunn here has a PhD in cultural studies, with a speciality in the gender politics of movement and breakdance. She has written about how including break dance in the Olympics changes it from a practice within an alternative subculture, to a hegemonic one that incorporates the dance into what she sees as Australia’s settler colonialist project. I am 100% certain what she is doing here, in wearing the Australia kit even, is trying to make some subversive point she can later write journal articles about.
This whole episode is demonstrative of the supreme selfishness of woke identity politics studies. Her little stunt diminishes Australia on the world stage. Hundreds of Australian athletes who will have dedicated their entire lives to athletic excellence will be forgotten, because Rachael wanted to bulk up her ResearchGate profile. Rather than their medals and efforts, this is what Australia will be remembered for.
Not to mention the disastrous effect this will have on break dancing as a sport. Its position in the Olympics is not secure, and surely won’t be taken seriously after this. Good job Rachael, you really showed those chauvinist nationalists, hundreds of women and girls will not get their Olympic opportunity now.
Rachael represents so much of what is totally lecherous about cultural studies academics. Pick a subject area that will be under-studied in your context, so you can rise through the ranks quickly (how many break dancing academics will there be in Australia?), and wreak absolute havoc in lives of the people you want to study. There is no limit to the sheer disrespect they will dole out, purely for self-advancement.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There were periods when the Soviet Union and East Germany, with their sports centers and doping, dominated Olympic medals. Now the U.S. is barely on par with China, with its larger population, growing affluence, and commitment to gold medal performances.
Importing millions of short, unathletic Central Americans isn’t going to do anything for the USA. It’s time to acknowledge the U.S. is just another country and at least be glad we outperform India.
It took China an extra BILLION people to find 2 extra gold medals, and still short 30 in other medals.
Anonymous wrote:There were periods when the Soviet Union and East Germany, with their sports centers and doping, dominated Olympic medals. Now the U.S. is barely on par with China, with its larger population, growing affluence, and commitment to gold medal performances.
Importing millions of short, unathletic Central Americans isn’t going to do anything for the USA. It’s time to acknowledge the U.S. is just another country and at least be glad we outperform India.
