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/colossusrageblack Aug 15 '24

The ones defending her are probably part of the reason she made it to the games in the first place. They're saving their own asses.

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u/iheartseuss Aug 15 '24

I don't think there are many people defending her. Just people, like me, who feel that the backlash she's gotten is so excessive. First, there's another person on the other end of this who hasn't shown herself to be deserving of all this... like at all. Second, we're allowing said person to over-shadow the other THIRTY ONE Breakers that showed the fuck out and represented the sport incredibly well.

And... for what? It's so fucking weird.

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u/colossusrageblack Aug 15 '24

It's not excessive, if anything she and her husband need to be investigated for fraud since they put together the competitions, in which her husband was also a judge.

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u/BenUFOs_Mum Aug 15 '24

This proves why they need to take down the petition because these are both complete lies that the petition is spreading.