I watched the video and have no frame of reference. Why was it bad?

Anonymous wrote:She showed the world what a joke the Olympics has become. With open borders and people playing for whichever country they want, this is all pointless bread and circuses for the dumb cattle masses.

You have a point. Seeing an American compete for Sweden in the high jump blew my mind.

Anonymous wrote:I’m seriously planning a run for LA 2028.

Fine by me, but it won't be for breakdancing. They will be adding baseball, softball, flag football, lacrosse, and squash. Your best chances are for a team sport.

What's more concerning is that with the rapid increase in tuition to universities that they would fund a department like this and hand out scholarships so that real majors have to subsidize it

She showed the world what a joke the Olympics has become. With open borders and people playing for whichever country they want, this is all pointless bread and circuses for the dumb cattle masses.

She’s a cheat and a con artist and now she’s claiming to be a victim? Shameless loser.

Anonymous wrote:RayGunn was bad intentionally. Different from an athlete doing their best.

If this is true, it makes me really angry. People go to the Olympics to excel. Someone would have loved to have that opportunity to demonstrate their excellence. People train their whole lives to get to the Olympics. Doinga joke routine at the Olympics is disrespectful to the other athletes, to your country, to the fans, and to your home country.

Absolutely disgraceful.

I’m seriously planning a run for LA 2028.

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Anonymous wrote:No talent woman who gamed the system to prevent more talented dancers from taking the spot at the Olympics.

+100

The old farts criticizing break dancing are clueless dinosaurs who need to step off. You're the same people who complained rock and roll was Satan's music. It's exactly the same.

The woman is a self aggrandizing attention whore who took a spot away from someone who actually deserved it. What an azzz she is.

No this old fart Gen Xer is wondering how the heck this ended up as an Olympic sport because people your age have no idea about the heyday of breakdancing back in the mid 80s. My middle school crush would have been a shoe in back in the day and could definitely have done better than Raygun. And as soon as I heard this was an Olympic sport , I thought of the Breakin movie and laughed. then I remembered that there were several movies with this theme.

If Raygun was the best that Australia had to offer in this sport than they should have sat this one out.

Anonymous wrote:Rachael Gunn, somehow Australia put her on the Olympic team and she sucked, made a fool of everyone, scored zero points on all three dance offs, and demonstrated a very low level of skill, talent and creativity.

How did this happen? Why did it happen?

Because nobody cared about Olympic break dancing. Or fish out of water imitations.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the attitude that goes with breaking is kind of dumb, like why do they have to stand there while the other is competing and do things in response to each other?

I don't get why she is getting so much hate. It wasn't even a sport for women until like 2018 and the flak she is getting is sexism. How women do things is different than men. It's not going to look the same. So I feel sorry for her. I think it was funny she added animal impersonations, but she could actually do some moves most women can't do so I don't think she deserves all the criticism.

Agree.

The final finisher in the Olympics marathon had a time near 4 hours — she wouldn’t have qualified for Boston with that time. She also walked for parts of it. But did the crowd/running community laugh? Nah, they cheered her on.

ray gun’s performance was bad, I just don’t see why she deserves a 5+ page thread about it.

Because it was so weird and unexpected and puzzling, that's why!

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Anonymous wrote:This woman is completely lacking in self awareness. Watch some YouTube interviews. She continues to double down on her “doing her best.” She is a dunning Kruger narcissist who conned her way into academia by choosing a niche area of focus. Then she conned her way into the Olympics because of odd Australian rules for this “sport”. She did a bunny hop. Then after she claimed sexism or whatever.

It’s the Olympics. Doing your best is not good enough

Sure it is. If you qualify, which Gunn did through a series of competions, then you go to the Olympics. That’s the process and Gunn isn’t responsible for or to blame for that process.

Once you get to the Olympics, doing your best is what counts. For some, that will mean a medal. For others it means the pride of just being at the competition.

If Gunn wasn’t a nearly middle aged white woman, she wouldn’t be getting this hate.

That is not true at all. I think anyone who came to the Olympics and showed so poorly would be getting raised eyebrows. The x factor here is that she was doing this weird thing in a dancing competition. I think any of the sports where artistic flair is part of the competition would have garnered the same result - it's just especially funny in one where there isn't really a sport anyway, it's ALL artistic flair. And hers was just bad! I think this curdled once it came out that she'd suppressed better dancers from Australia. Now it's not just, well Australia doesn't have good dancers and this one was hysterically bad but at least she gave it her all. It was - wow, this PhD in breakdancing rigged the contest to prevent actual dancers from being able to compete because she wanted to do it herself, and that sucks. Though I guess every Olympic athlete has some ruthlessness in them or they wouldn't have gotten this far.

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Anonymous wrote:She is an imposter who gamed the system.
I don’t know how she hot nominated.

She claims she did her “best.” With her best she maybe needs to stay out of competitions. Dance in your living room.

It's been done before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Eagle The sad thing is that there is a lot of street break dancing in Sydney. The Australian Olympic committee would have been better off just wandering around and picking a kid whose routine they liked

Hmm, here’s what Wikipedia says about Eddie the Eagle:

“His lack of success endeared him to people around the globe. He subsequently became a media celebrity and appeared on talk shows around the world, appearing on The Tonight Show during the Games. The press nicknamed him "Mr. Magoo", and one Italian journalist called him a "ski dropper".[11]”

Quite a different reaction than Raygun’s receiving!

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Anonymous wrote:This woman is completely lacking in self awareness. Watch some YouTube interviews. She continues to double down on her “doing her best.” She is a dunning Kruger narcissist who conned her way into academia by choosing a niche area of focus. Then she conned her way into the Olympics because of odd Australian rules for this “sport”. She did a bunny hop. Then after she claimed sexism or whatever.

It’s the Olympics. Doing your best is not good enough

Sure it is. If you qualify, which Gunn did through a series of competions, then you go to the Olympics. That’s the process and Gunn isn’t responsible for or to blame for that process.

Once you get to the Olympics, doing your best is what counts. For some, that will mean a medal. For others it means the pride of just being at the competition.

If Gunn wasn’t a nearly middle aged white woman, she wouldn’t be getting this hate.

RayGunn was bad intentionally. Different from an athlete doing their best.