Olympic Australian Breakdancer Raygun Publicizes Retirement After “Upsetting” Criticism
Raygun, the Olympic breakdancer from Australia, stated that she is achieved with competitive dancing following the backlash she got from her viral performance in Paris.
There shall be no more competitive kangaroo hops.
Australia’s viral breakdancer Rachel “Raygun” Gunn has announced that she is retiring from competitive dancing, following the criticism that came after her performance on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 37-year-extinct reached her decision after she got 0 aspects throughout all three of the round robin rounds of the inaugural breakdancing competition on the video games in August, which turned into once followed by backlash on-line.
“I’m no longer going to compete anymore, no,” Raygun stated throughout an interview with Australia’s 2DayFM by technique of CNN. “I turned into once going to retain competing, for certain, but that appears to be like to be if truth be told subtle for me to present now to manner a fight.”
Whereas she’ll no longer take to the necessary stage to dance, Raygun stated that she isn’t giving up on breaking—which is ready to no longer produce its return to the 2028 Olympic video games—fully.
“Yeah, I imply I aloof dance, and I aloof damage. Nonetheless, you know, that’s like in my living room with my accomplice,” she stated. “It’s been if truth be told upsetting. I appropriate didn’t beget any control over how people noticed me or who I turned into once.”
Raygun turned into once one in every of 16 women from across the globe who build it all on the bottom (literally) throughout the breaking competition.
And within the aftermath, the facts superhighway had masses of tweets and conspiracies once the dancer—whose day job is lecturer in media and ingenious industries at Sydney’s Macquarie University—qualified for the competition.
Following her loss, Raygun beforehand spoke about the backlash she got.
“I didn’t realize that that might well additionally initiate the door to so indispensable abominate, which has frankly been somewhat devastating,” she stated in an Aug.15 Instagram post. “Whereas I went accessible and I had an very excellent time, I did take it very severely. I worked my butt off, getting ready for the Olympics and I gave my all if truth be told. I’m honored to had been a phase of the Australian Olympic Crew and to be phase of breaking’s Olympic debut.”
Nonetheless amid the criticism, Raygun also got toughen from figures like breakdancing bask in Martin Gilian, who came to her protection—in toughen of her unfamiliar strikes. Extra notably, the kangaroo hop seen across the world.
“It’s all about originality and it’s all about bringing something unusual to the table and representing your country or issue,” Gilian outlined throughout a press conference on Aug.14, per CNN. “This is exactly what Raygun turned into once doing, she obtained impressed by her environment, which in this case, as an illustration, turned into once a kangaroo.”
Preserve reading for a scrutinize relief at more Olympic controversies…
Jordan Chiles Medal Controversy
After the U.S. gymnast acquired bronze within the ladies's gymnastics particular particular person ground exercise final, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Romanian finalists Ana Maria Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who came in fourth and fifth issue, filed an charm with the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport.
The Romanian side argued that an inquiry that Chiles' coach had submitted on the competition that had resulted in the athlete's get to be raised by 0.1 of some degree don’t had been granted since it turned into once submitted four seconds previous a one-minute deadline.
The court agreed and ruled that the U.S. athlete's preliminary get of 13.666 might well be reinstated, a decision also adopted later by the World Gymnastics Federation, which stated in an announcement that it had modified the rankings to position Barbosu in third issue.
The World Olympics Committee then announced that it “will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu (Romania),” adding, “We’re in touch with the NOC of Romania to chat about the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC referring to the return of the bronze medal.”
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it plans to charm the choice.
Canada Boots Girls folks's Soccer Coach
The 2024 Olympics had barely begun when Bev Priestman, head coach of the Canadian women's soccer group, turned into once eradicated from her post by Canada Soccer after her group turned into once accused of the usage of drones to scrutinize on the Novel Zealand group forward of their neighborhood stage match.
“Additional data has technique to our attention referring to old drone use against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” Canada Soccer CEO and basic secretary Kevin Blue stated in a July 25 tell explaining the choice. “In gentle of these unusual revelations, Canada Soccer has made the choice to suspend…Bev Priestman for the leisure of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and till the completion of our no longer too prolonged within the past announced impartial external evaluation.”
Priestman apologized, pronouncing in an announcement, “I am fully heartbroken for the avid gamers, and I would like to advise regret from the underside of my coronary heart for the impact this grief has had on all of them.”
The group, which acquired gold in Tokyo, is “a neighborhood of people that care very indispensable about sportsmanship and integrity,” she persevered. “Because the chief of the group on the field, I must take accountability, and I notion to fully co-feature with the [Canadian Soccer Association] investigation.”
South Korea Wrong for North Korea One day of the Opening Ceremony
Because the boat carrying athletes from South Korea came into leer throughout the July 26 Opening Ceremony, they were incorrectly announced in both French and English as being from the Democratic Other people's Republic of Korea—which is North Korea.
South Korea, within the period in-between, is the Republic of Korea.
In a July 27 tell, the World Olympic Committee illustrious, “We deeply advise regret for the mistake that took place when introducing the Korean group throughout the Opening Ceremony broadcast.”
IOC President Thomas Bach known as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to advise regret, per the executive executive's issue of job, which relayed that Yoon told Bach the people of South Korea were “very unnerved and embarrassed” by the mistake. An IOC spokesperson known as the error an “operational mistake” that turned into once “clearly deeply regrettable.”
Parade expose is made up our minds alphabetically in accordance with the host nation's language—minus Greece, which constantly goes first as the residence of the necessary Olympics, and the host nation goes last. South Korea turned into once the Forty eighth country within the Parade of Countries, whereas North Korea turned into once 153rd.
The Inferior Extra or much less Splash
British commentator Bob Ballard turned into once pulled from Eurostar's Olympics coverage for making a comment that turned into once widely derided as sexist after Australian swimmers Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris acquired gold within the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
“Effectively, the ladies appropriate ending off,” Ballard stated following the bustle. “what women are like…inserting around, doing their make-up.”
His co-commentator Lizzie Simmonds spoke back, “Coarse, Bob. A pair of of the males are doing that as correctly.”
Calling his comment “defective,” Eurostar stated in a July 29 tell Ballard had been eradicated with “quick stop” from additional coverage.
The feeble sportscaster promptly apologized.
“The feedback I made throughout the Australian freestyle relay victory ceremony on Saturday beget triggered some offence,” he wrote on X. “It turned into once by no map my procedure to upset or belittle anybody and, if I did, I apologise. I am a broad suggest of girls’s sport.”
A Rumor That Went Off the Deep Discontinue
After speculation that a too-shallow pool inner La Defense Enviornment turned into once accountable for slower-than-expected occasions in swimming, the athletes torpedoed the basis that the water wasn't deep ample to break records.
“I deem it's fully a tale,” Crew USA's Regan Smith, who swam away from Paris with 5 medals, told NBCOlympics.com after she and Gretchen Walsh, Lilly King and Torri Huske issue a unusual world file within the ladies's 4×100-meter medley. “I deem in the initiating people were very attentive to [the lack of new records]… So, I deem that triggered some chatter, like, 'Oh, is it the pool that's doing this?' Nonetheless I deem as the meet went on, people obtained frail to it, after which I deem they obtained more pleased with it, after which we started seeing some if truth be told lickety-split swims.”
Added four-time medalist Walsh, “I deem indispensable of what the Olympics is, and what it represents, makes any pool that it's at feel more or much less slack. Due to which you might well presumably also beget so indispensable stress to your self that it’s a long way exhausting at your 100% solely.”
Swimmer Sent Dwelling for “Indiscipline”
Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira turned into once sent residence after, in accordance with the Brazilian Olympic Committee, she dedicated two “acts of indiscipline”: She left the Olympic Village with boyfriend/teammate Gabriel Santos with out permission, the BOC stated, after performing “in a disrespectful and aggressive manner” in accordance with a “technical decision made by the Brazilian Swimming Crew committee” referring to the 4x100m freestyle relay.
In a video titled “How a dialog failure destroyed my Olympic dream,” Vieira lamented what came about but stated, “all the pieces goes to be solved on the true time.”
One other Swimmer Kicked Out for “Unfavorable Atmosphere”
The Paraguayan Olympic Committee asked swimmer Luana Alonso to leave the Games, alleging in an announcement that she had created an “defective atmosphere on the Heart of Crew Paraguay.”
“We thank her for continuing as urged,” the tell persevered, “because it turned into once of her bask in free will that she did no longer utilize the night within the Athletes' Village.”
The Southern Methodist University student had reputedly already returned to Texas when she wrote on Instagram Fable (translated from Spanish) Aug. 5, “I appropriate wished to present it certain that I turned into once by no map eradicated or expelled from wherever, stop spreading unsuitable data. I don’t must give any tell but I’m no longer going to let lies beget an impact on me either.”
MyKayla Skinner vs. Simone Biles
Simone Biles had already let or no longer it be known what she regarded as Tokyo teammate MyKayla Skinner's criticism of the U.S. gymnastics group selected to hotfoot to Paris—and Skinner had apologized for pronouncing in a since-deleted video that “the abilities and the depth appropriate isn't like what it frail to be” and that “clearly masses of girls don't work as exhausting.”
Nonetheless after the 2024 squad acquired group gold, Biles captioned a picture of the athletes, “Lack of consciousness, sluggish, olympic champions”—an apparent jab at Skinner's long-established comment.
On Aug. 6, Skinner reiterated in an Instagram video that she had “poorly” articulated her long-established point. Nonetheless, she added, the cyberbullying she and her family had been field to—fallout from her cyberfeud with Biles—had gotten out of hand.
She pleaded with the seven-time gold medalist “to thrill build a stop to this. Please search data from your followers to prevent.”
Beam In a Diminutive Noise, Please
Neither Biles nor Suni Lee medaled in beam this year after both gymnasts fell off the apparatus throughout their final routines.
In a while, Biles commented on the surprisingly aloof environment throughout their penultimate tournament in Paris.
“It turned into once if truth be told uncommon and awkward,” the athlete, who earned bronze on beam in Tokyo, told the Linked Press. “We've asked loads of occasions if we can beget some song, or some background noise. I'm no longer if truth be told certain what came about there, but yeah, no longer our favourite. None of us loved it.”
In line with the GOAT's criticism, an World Gymnastics Federation stated the atmosphere turned into once “phase of the sport presentation notion at Paris 2024.”
Lee illustrious that “the stress turned into once positively on” and “masses of people were positively feeling it.”
She wondered if it turned into once so aloof the nearby photographers might well also hear her breathing.
“It adds to the stress,” Lee stated, “appropriate since it’s resembling you, certain, you're the solely one up there. So I turned into once feeling the stress.”
Gymnastics Scoring Shocker
Jordan Chiles reputedly achieved out of the running for a medal when she achieved her ground exercise final routine and got a get of 13.666, Romania's Ana Barbosu forward of her in third issue with a get of 13.700.
Nonetheless after Crew USA filed a get inquiry on Chiles' behalf and her performance turned into once additional reviewed by the judges, her originate up mark turned into once elevated by one-tenth of some degree. In consequence, her get turned into once subsequently bumped up to 13.766. Which map, she obtained the bronze and Barbosu—who turned into once already waving her country's flag in celebration—left the enviornment in tears.
In a while, Barbosu posted a video of herself competing and wrote, “Thank you to everyone who impressed me earlier than, throughout, and after the competition.”
5,000 Meters Scoring Shocker
Medal adjustments haven't been confined to the gymnastics enviornment.
Kenyan runner Religion Kipyegon turned into once before all the pieces disqualified for seeming to jostle Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia throughout the ladies's 5,000 meters on the Stade de France on Aug. 5, negating her 2nd-issue stop.
“I even beget by no map seen something else like that, in an Olympic final that went on for goodbye,” commentator Kara Goucher, a two-time Olympian, stated on the broadcast, noting that the two women also perceived to exchange heated words. “You notice moderately little bit of elbow, you notice moderately little bit of frustration, but that turned into once many strides and scolding.”
It wasn't till the wee hours of Aug. 6 that Kipyegon stumbled on out her silver medal had been reinstated. The Olympic Jury of Allure ruled that, whereas there had been “necessary contact” between her and Tsegay, “the incident did no longer warrant a disqualification.”
With that, Italy's Nadia Battocletti—the fourth-issue finisher ran into bronze space by the disqualification—turned into once re-relegated to fourth.
Swimming Disqualifications That Stood
Two athletes' hopes of a medal were dashed when they unwittingly broke rules mid-swim, which map they didn't even know they were out till they achieved their races.
Mountainous Britain's Luke Greenbank achieved first in his 200-meter backstroke warmth but turned into once disqualified for staying underwater for additional than the utmost 15 meters after first diving in.
“Secure or lose I’ve constantly been my bask in cruelest critic but every so often you’ve appropriate obtained to take it because it comes,” he wrote on Instagram Aug. 1. “I can take satisfaction within the indisputable fact that I know I turned into once in broad form coming into these video games after a anxious few years, but this might well also motivate me to approach relief stronger.”
A technical error also knocked Alex Walsh off the 200-meter particular particular person medley podium after she achieved within the bronze space. As she approached the wall throughout the last leg of her backstroke, she made an illegal flip by initiating to flip out of space earlier than she tapped the wall and launched into her breaststroke.
“Peaceable proud,” Walsh wrote on Instagram Aug. 6, thanking her supporters just a few days after the bustle. “In spite of the DQ, this Olympics has been an abilities that has left me feeling contented and fulfilled, and I will like that with out extinguish. Finally, all the pieces happens for a cause and there is so map more to be occupied with for me in this sport.”
One thing within the Water?
In spite of $1.fifty three billion having been budgeted to incandescent up the perennially polluted Seine, reports swirled for months leading up to the Paris Games about whether it’s a long way also safe ample to raise the swimming leg of the triathlons and the ten-kilometer marathons within the river.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo went for a swim July 17 and declared France's most eminent physique of water excellent to hotfoot—on the opposite hand it's been more or much less a s–t tell since the Olympics began.
On Monday, July 29, swims for the triathletes to familiarize themselves with the Seine were canceled, officers citing dejected water quality levels triggered by flee-off from the weekend's heavy rains (which noticeably started throughout the July 26 Opening Ceremony).
The males's triathlon turned into once then postponed a day and rescheduled to educate the ladies's tournament on July 31 after organizers deemed micro organism levels too excessive for a safe swim.
Each triathlons were held July 31, day-of tests finding that E. coli and intestinal enterococci levels were low ample to qualify the water as “indispensable quality,” per the European Union's Bathing Water Directive.
Nonetheless speculation that the water wasn't safe resumed after two athletes who competed within the triathlon dropped out of the blended-relay competition, citing respective ailments (neither of which had been definitively linked to swimming within the Seine).
The ladies's and males's 10km are aloof scheduled for Aug. 8 and 9, but practices were canceled Aug. 6 after tests confirmed micro organism levels were all once more too excessive.
Australian Discipline Hockey Player Arrested
Australian field hockey player Tom Craig publicly apologized after being arrested for making an try to aquire cocaine in Paris two days after the group's quarterfinal loss to the Netherlands.
“I would in the initiating like to advise regret for what has took place all the map thru the last 24 hours,” he stated at an Aug. 7 press conference, per the Australian Linked Press. “My actions are my bask in and by no manner replicate the values of my family, my teammates, my chums, the sport and the Australian Olympic group. I even beget embarrassed you all and I'm if truth be told sorry.”
In an announcement, an Australian Olympic Committee authentic known as Tom “a authentic particular person that had made a dejected decision” and stated the group would toughen him if he wanted assist. Nonetheless, the authentic added, the athlete turned into once losing all of his last Olympic privileges, efficient without lengthen.
Source credit : eonline.com
