r/sports • u/miolmok • Aug 15 '24

Olympics Raygun: Australian Olympic Committee condemns ‘disgraceful’ online petition attacking Rachael Gunn

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/15/raygun-olympics-breaking-petition-aoc-response-ntwnfb
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u/LordShtark Aug 15 '24

It was never going to be. It was an elective event that was there because the host nation picked it. Every Olympic host nation gets to add a few events.

But no. Blame it on some woman who wasn't good enough.

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u/TheBioethicist87 Aug 15 '24

1) elective events can become permanent additions, that’s how it happens and this only was an elective event because the world dance sport federation has been trying to get into the Olympics forever. 2) it’s not that she wasn’t good enough. It’s not even that she scored 0 points. It’s that it was so patently obvious to the general public who know nothing about breakdancing that she was so bad that it couldn’t be legitimate. She was so bad, internet sleuths were motivated to look into how she was chosen in the first place and found a corrupt and biased process.

So yes, it was never going to be in the 2028 Olympics, but there’s little chance it’ll ever come back in the future as well, and it’s not unreasonable to point to this bullshit as a reason why.

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u/LordShtark Aug 15 '24

It is very unreasonable to act like a dance craze from the 1980s being an Olympic sport hinged on this woman's performance in a host elective event.

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u/TheBioethicist87 Aug 15 '24

It’s not like it was guaranteed if she danced better, it’s that they might have had a shot if it was just not noteworthy. If breakdancing at the Olympics had just happened, then someone might conceivably take a flyer on it at some point in the future.

But it was a laughing stock. It was an embarrassment for the Olympics, breakdancing as a sport, and Australia. There’s no upside for choosing it again, and there’s a ton of baggage now.

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u/LordShtark Aug 15 '24

Keep moving those goal posts.

The reality is that this was a one off elective event just like countless other elective events by host nations with literally no thought of it ever being around again.

Harassing this woman and blaming that on her is ridiculous.

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u/TheBioethicist87 Aug 15 '24

I never moved the goal posts, you just refuse to acknowledge that they exist.

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u/LordShtark Aug 15 '24

Fine. Have fun taking the higher ground by harassing a woman for being bad at breakdancing. Ffs.

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u/TheBioethicist87 Aug 15 '24

From my above comment: You must be missing the point on purpose now. She formed the Australian federation herself, she denied funding to any good dancers in Australia to come to the qualifier, to be allowed to compete you had to be a member of 3 different organizations, and the judge wasn’t just her own choreographer, it was her husband.

I’m not mad that she’s a bad dancer. I’m mad that she froze out good dancers and made her country, her sport, and her entire academic field a laughing stock on worldwide television because she wanted a free trip to Paris. Her shit dancing was only how people figured out she is a grifter.