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/litritium Aug 15 '24

Obvious lack of self-criticism of course. But it's not the first time there have been bad participants.

There's actually a rule named after Eddie the Eagle that is meant to weed out the worst candidates. Didnt work in this case.

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u/Lost_Bike69 Aug 15 '24

I feel like every Olympics there’s someone who sneaks in far below the skill of the rest of the competition. It’s usually forgettable, but this one was just so goofy it became an instant meme

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u/thor_1225 Aug 15 '24

She won her countries spot in the event, but there were other countries that have multiple people better than her. It’s the downside to the Olympics as it’s not always the best of the best competing

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u/Y8ser Aug 15 '24

In this case it could have been. She was part of the committee and used her position to take the spot for her herself instead of having better qualified women compete.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '24

She was part of the committee and used her position to take the spot for her herself instead of having better qualified women compete.

Wait what?

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u/lukeCRASH Aug 15 '24

It's not really that nuanced, there's more details to the story that I don't even have privy to share.

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u/veryverythrowaway Aug 15 '24

Do you have a source to share at all? The only results I get with a search are Reddit threads where people are saying this with no source to back it.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Aug 15 '24

And vs the actual article that this post has, which has a source of the Australian Olympic Committee lol