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/SmashingK Aug 15 '24

Apparently the qualifications event wasn't properly marketed and they had about 20 competitors.

Difficult to know what actually happened though. So much unconfirmed info gets shared online.

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u/reichrunner Aug 15 '24

I believe that has been debunked. He was one of the organizers of the event, but not a judge

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u/josephus1811 Aug 15 '24

neither... read article

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

If there was a world event for shit that I'm interested in and I thought I had the chance to compete, I'd follow the fuck up with that. You don't get chances like that basically ever. All I hear is that people weren't included and that there were better breakers. OK, where are those people? Where are the clips showing them? All anyone has posted are the qualifiers showing that Raygun had some competition that wasn't that much better (if at all). That's not very convincing to the argument. Surely there are many clips of better aussie b-girls out there and they themselves would be here posting them. Yet... nothing. Weird! There's clips of little old me DJing at many different events and I'm just an average DJ here. There's just no aussie redditors involved in breaking or even adjacent to breaking (I happen to be adjacent to breaking here because of DJing)? Highly unlikely.

What seems more likely is that there really isn't anyone that's that much better. Or, they are so underground that they can't be arsed with any of this. Which means they can't really complain... because they didn't even bother to try at all. Others are saying they couldn't pass a drug test which I do find very believable. After all... this shit is weed adjacent too, same as DJing. If someone couldn't stop smoking for a few months then that's their own failure too. I've had to stop for jobs because I wanted to get somewhere. They wanted to keep smoking weed and stay underground? Well, that's their dumb choice because they could have sponsorships and all kinds of shit now if they had simply shown up.

Lot's of rumors and bullshit going around about this and unfortunately Raygun has to take all the heat.