American reacts to the RAYGUN fiasco
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I’m an Aussie and this is just embarrassing. I truly don’t know this break dance world but I would have thought we had some more legit contenders in the selection.
if you watched the australian selectors interview.. we did have better competitors but none of them had to lock themselves in there room like a child because more men did the sport than women.. yes you can quote them saying "the reason we chose her was she had to lock herself in her room because she was so traumatized of the fact more men where in the sport than women"... More men mow the lawn,, quick ladies lock yourselves up lol.. I also have just found out more women own hair and nail salons than men so I won't be leaving my room today out of trauma...
Embarrassed on her performance or embarrassed of your self for making comments on something you know nothing about? unless you are a break dancing judge, you have no right to be embarrassed. she tried out for the Olympics, got a gig, and apparently done her best. there is nothing to be embarrassed about
@@TheDrunkenAlcoholicI'm sure there are people more talent than her in Australia. Why not send them? And if she is so skilled at breakdancing there's no way most people, especially breakdancers, will laugh and angry at her. 🤣
@@TheDrunkenAlcoholic Embarrassed on her performance for sure.. POD is correct.. this was a terrible performance that why the judges scored it 0... absolute joke to the industry and she should apologies for defrauding the system... saying unless you are a break dancing judge you have no right is a load of crap and doesnt make sense when the judges actually agreed and scored 0.. we have an ID 10 T error here
I feel for you Aussies, if this all you guys have, Give it up. 😂😂😂😂😂
The worst thing about Raygun is that people are not talking about the great performances by winning athletes. Instead we are talking about Raygun.
Maybe, but also I didn't even know break dancing was included and went about checking out the others because of RayGunn(I like break dancing, but old so out the loop. But while it has taken some focus off competition she also drew eyes possibly. Did with me anyways)
true its sad we had great olympians she should have performed August 26th at the opening ceremony
Ray gun.. I have seen babies trying to crawl across the floor. With better moves ..how the he'll did you get to the games that was a totally embarrassing mess😢😢😢
It was bad yeah, but it's the medias fault for the lack of coverage of good dancers. She doesn't control the media focus 🤷♂️
The biggest star in Olympic History is Usain Bolt. Did you actually see a big star in Paris? Even Usain gave Paris a miss 😂😂😂 We could be talking about how the Netherlands sending an Athlete that raped a 12yr old girl to Paris or The 2 male boxers punching women up for Golds 😂😂😂
Every Aussie is asking, How did she get to the Olympics?
@@taylorjones4939 No..every Aussie is asking...how is break dancing an Olympic sport???
@@taylorjones4939 by winning the 2023 Oceania championships 🤷🏿♂️
It was brilliant.
It's gone viral.
What a gutsy thing to do.
@@trumpsta4759. Well, the Olympic organisers are desperate to expand the program. Next time, they are adding rhythmic synchronised banana peeling and underwater scrabble.
because she is australian 😎
Check out the memes on this topic... its hilarious and I'm an Aussie.... sorry she was embarassing but so funny! If you are gonna sook about the feedback on your performance, you're gonna cop criticism. Being a Professor in breaking and gender studies says it all to most! 😂😂
You’ve got that right!
Agree lol
@@moonvale A+ for your thesis on useless University pursuits.
@billytoohey8887 as an Aussie, I'm embarrassed. Also sad that someone talented didn't get the opportunity. Definitely was funny to watch
Cultural Studies, not gender.
Her husband did her dirty, he coulda told her she wasnt cut out for the Olympics
Where do you think she got her moves from? 😅 He does the same whack floor scrubbing routine
He was a judge who decided who was selected for the Olympics
@@toozy101 He wasn't a judge. That's been debunked.
@@PatrickCooperPhotography-nw1pp yes Ryan actually showed that it was debunked..I doubt they even watched before posting that!
She should have already known herself, in the last world championships she came 64th out of 80.
I’m a 50 yr old Aussie, I did this when I was young. Some poor person who loves it and is great at it got duped. Embarrassing and ridiculous.
I wonder if they sent the best Australian b-girl what it would look like
My only concern is the focus that shifted away from where it should be for us Aussies.
This an example of an academic who lives in her own reality. No common sense and no idea. She graduated then got a job at the same Uni , not in reality.
Exactly....I've heard universities described as sheltered workshops for intellectuals.... Seems to be a good fit in this instance.
@@Wyz369and your education level is?
Cry more @@lynettelinder6861 it was crap .
Imagine there being anti-intellectualism in Australia - who would have thought
Embodies most uni students. Only good at following text books, little real world intelligence.
Yes, we do need to talk about this 😅🤦🏼♀️ . I wish I could post a video of my 5 year old grandson doing his break dancing routine (exact same moves😅), I believe he deserves a spot in the Oz break dancing team👌.
At least he probably would have scored. Her routine was clearly aimed at scoring ZERO.
@@puppiTube 😅
And a PhD in what ever.
@@partymanau Some nonsense PhD that enabled her to what? Flip burgers and be bossed around by a 20 year old.
our future BD olympian😎
Personally I’m not into break dancing but I’m also not into whatever Raygun was doing and I’m Australian.
Me too. Tasmanian Australian
oh lighten up clearly there was a misunderstanding in the selection process but hey kudos to her for keeping true to her artform for as long as she has.
@@HelenBeeee Not really. Feelings and artistic commitment aside, this was a well earned check. This sent a shock wave into the right places. The ol 'everyone deserves a go' stuff, talent or no talent, has been going on too long unchecked. Competition is amazing, only the best.
@@HelenBeeee There was maybe alot of behind the scenes politics that went on but no FKng misunderstanding. Its because people has been kind and less than truthful to her for a long time that she wound a national embarrassment with up with a zero score.
You guys are such sooks. There's horrid things going on in the world. Raygun is far from embarrassing. She's just what we've needed.
I was entered into a swimming gala when I was a kid, representing my school in Butterfly. Not because I was good at Butterfly, but because I was the only kid in my year level that could even do it!
I lost in humiliating fashion.
i feel you O once had to swim a length of the pool too at a school event and do marching! Neither is my forte.
But you still went?
I admire you being able to do butterfly at all.
@@ToniTries well, sometimes you gotta try, right? 😉
@friendlyneighbourhoodsteve4087 exactly. She qualified for the Oceania continent. She knew she wasn't going to win, but who is turning down the experience?
That would mean that the Olympic swimming would have us, China and Australia competing only. Boring.
Definitely MUCH better female break dancers in Australia! 🇦🇺
She was just an embarrassment
It's a little like (for your benefit Ryan) when some one goes to an American Idol audition after being told by their mum (mom) that they are really good when they are in fact are really bad. It must be heartbreaking to learn the truth in front of a massive audience.
thats a bit mean
Not if you have an ego. ua-cam.com/video/bf-9-6QhBhc/v-deo.html
@@HelenBeeee It's a tough lesson to learn, but truth and facts don't care about feelings.
@@HelenBeeee At what point do the adults say that's not acceptable? She was totally unsuited and unskilled, and should have known better.
Surely she watched some videos prior - there’s this thing called UA-cam ……
NZ got 10 gold?? Holy fck that's brilliant. I'm Australian and I thought my country smashed it. The kiwis crushed souls. Good on 'em. I love the kiwis.
They really came on strong towards the end with rowing and cycling in particular. That was an amazing effort from NZ.
the whole thing is hilarious to us in this house, we have not laughed so hard in a long time
The people who were responsible for sending her to the Olympics should be removed from that position of power. Raygun took the position of someone more deserving.
Her and her husband were the deciders of who were selected 🤨
@@theunboiledfrog1258 Someone gave them that power. Go higher up
@@theunboiledfrog1258 Wrong. That was debunked.
My question is why does Macquarie University have a Professor of Break Dancing? Also at 36 Raygun was definitely not our best 'breaker' to represent. It's like Kath and Kim got selected.
Anna Meares was acting like we don’t have breakers here.
She has a Ph.D. in cultural studies. Her thesis was Deterritorialising Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: a B-girl's Experience of B-boying. She won her Olympic Team spot at the QMS 2023 WDSF Oceania Breaking Championships (OBC) at the Sydney Town Hall in late October 2023.
Think her husband had a hand in sabotaging her. He couldn't participate and was jealous so encouraged her to do this pathetic routine. 😂😂😂
Totally agree! While it was admirable that she was wanting to protect everyone on her team, Anna Meares' statement was frustrating because she made it sound like RayGunn was the best in the field from Australia. Clearly she wasn't.
Kath would have been better!
@@daveg2104 I know that she won the Oceania competition. Interesting that as the debunking they have said that she won that competition, but nothing about the actual competition. We need to know more about how the competition was organised and what the requirements to enter were because there is something suss that there were only 15 competitors and the first round was supposed to get it down to a top 16.
I’m curious as to what her usual routines are like. Did she just say “fuck it, I’m not going to win, let’s just make it memorable?”
I mean does she really take break dancing seriously or was she just in the right place at the right time?
It reminds me of A Red Faces act honestly 🤷♂️
There are a few clips floating around on tiktok and twitter from her past events. I saw barely any difference. She was doing that weird floor move and that arm/leg twisty thing even back then
😂😂 it does seem like a red face's Act 👍
She is meant to have a PHD in break dancing …
@@neomortalgirl I was watching something that mentioned gender studies. But many more times I’ve heard it is a dance PhD
I was wondering if she deliberately scored a 0 with weird moves in order to gain fame. People go viral for such things and then live off it for years and become a celebrity of sorts in reality TV etc after pulling such stunts
That was so embarrassing. Absolutely ridiculous that she was at the Olympics.
I only caught once sentence from Raygun where she said since she knew she couldn’t win, so she decided to have fun with it. Only thing I don’t know is how/why she qualified. There are definitely female breakdancers in Australia. Maybe the real qualifier got sick? Didn’t get visa? No one signed up?
Not many qualification rounds in Australia so others are saying they couldn’t afford to qualify
Apparently her Husband was a judge.
@@candycanessongs Husband wasn't a judge, just her coach. There has been an official statement from the Olympic officials regarding that
There were only 15 people at the Oceania qualifying event (and the first round was supposed to get it down to the final 16). Saw an article where someone spoke out saying that there was only a months notice for when the event was going to happen, and I just found the official site, these were the requirements to be able to register to compete.
- hold a valid and subsisting passport of the country represented;
- be a Member of the WDSF NMB of the respective country;
- hold a WDSF Athletes’ Member ID Number (MIN); and
- hold a valid and subsisting WDSF Athletes’ License.
The competition was at Sydney Town Hall and went for 2 days so unless they lived in Sydney they also needed accommodation too.
@@amandamandamands well of course the real talents didn’t show up then! Too short notice with lots of red tape. And considering this was the one and only Olympics, why would anyone bother?
As an aussie, i would like to apologise to the rest of the world. It was beyond a joke.
She looked like a young kid that's immitating a breakdancer they've seen
Oh totally agree with you on this
It's not bullying, she put herself out there and her performance was an absolute joke. As an Aussie I am totally embarrassed, and yes she is overshadowing the Aussie guy who did a fantastic job of breaking. I don't blame the world for having a laugh, I'm laughing too at how bad this performance was.
It simply wasn't a breakdance at all.
It was something else altogether.
@@jamesfrench7299 Looked like a Subway employee being tasered on the floor.
I didn’t even know we had a guy competing. He has certainly been overshadowed.
She may have more sympathy if she hadn't mimed a yawn during her opponent's performance, like an oblivious narcissist...
@@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV to be fair that could be interpreted as being in the spirit of breakdancing battles. In this case it counts against her when she has no reason to feel so lofty.
All of her students were probably thinking " wait, she got chosen? But she's the worst in this class, let alone the country "
And the class attendance dropped overnight.
Oh no I am a 80’s girl and i do not recall any of these moves. I mean this is crack dancing.
No one gave a crap about breakdancing for 40 odd years. Now people know😂.
Joke of a sport to end up in the Olympics anyway!
But she made a joke of a joke of a sport, a whole new level of ludicrous.
@jamesfrench7299 film yourself doing a better routine then you keyboard warrior!
@@nathaniel2641 tell that to the billions of others who talked smack about her keyboard worryer.
@@nathaniel2641 Amen
Stop Ryan, this is not okay, it’s taking the mick out of professional athletes, that she got to the Olympics so disrespectfully (only other people to try out were her students). Glad you had fun with it but please don’t hold her up as a role model, she’s not an athlete. The only saving grace here is that we Aussies can laugh at ourselves and Anna Meares should be ashamed of her comments.
Pull your head in, Ryan's just laughing along like the rest of us and if you were a regular viewer of his channel you would know he's not like that, and to be honest she was pathetic but provided everyone with a good laugh, even to those who didn't win a medal
@@rolla5731 have watched him as long as he’s been up, you however, appear to be the only one entitled to an opinion so jog on or roll on lady.
Exactly Anna Mears should be responsible for not checking the entrants .
Rachel was Bloody Fantastic , The World all Smiled .
She made the Olympics.
Loved the Kangaroo .
Look out at the next Olympics ❤
Aussie Aussie Aussie 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
What A Gorgeous Girl her smile was Amazing , just like her dancing ...❤
Ps Rachel ,Great Ambassador 🇦🇺🇦🇺
being the best break dancer is like being rich in monopoly
😂
Best of the worst totally crap that's a degree in wasted education
I've think it's the classic case of " even if you can, you shouldn't." I think her husband failed her. In every video I've seen of him with her break dancing on her instagram, he's laughing his head off.
We are taking the piss out of Ray Gunn here in the UK.
And so you should.
Eddie 'the Eagle’ Edwards.
Two other thoughts come to mind. 1. Jonah from Summer Heights High 2. The guy in the video for The Offspring's Pretty Fly For A White Guy. Both contain similar dance moves. If at 36 you can't compete against the younger ones, why compete ? It's why I don't try out for the Olympic swim team at 57.
You enjoy yourself Ryan, every 120 years Australia F..s Up, you were lucky enough to witness it.
😂😂😂
I think we do stuff up more than that.
😅😅😅
I am an Aussie and I thought it was hilarious! I hadn't laughed so much in ages, and I for one needed that! People need to get off their high horses and leave her alone ( and I bet NONE of the trolls watched the Olympics like I did).
I really enjoyed her neo classical illusions expidited with efficency and graceful minimalism....
I don't know if the sport has sets of moves that breakers include in their routines that judges take note of with the excellent performers including extra tricks for points. An established mean from which to vary? Not sure neo classical is how I'd describe her moves regardless. That she may have just changed the minds of those who decided breaking should be included in the Olympics with her minimalisation and graceful efficiency might be of concern for future aspiring breakers however. That old adage 'those who can't do, teach' comes to mind and we know she qualifies to do that.
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍
She sucked !
Did she do it on a dare ?
Australia simultaneously did the best and worst at the Olympics
We got gold for stupidity
haha yeah I like the Ying Yang balance in that
Omg. Raygun exploited the system, got herself into the Olympics, not through any talent at all, because she was in charge of who qualified for the Olympics. She’s a disgrace. She was on the committee, her husband is her coach, it’s totally unfair. She didn’t start the organisation but she sure as hell took it under her wing. No, we did not have a huge breakdancing culture before the Olympics. I’m embarrassed as an Australian. That made a joke of athletes who put their entire lives on the line to represent our country. We have many young dancers who could have done better than this woman. No. She is not a legend. She is not a Bradbury. She has become famous for all the wrong reasons. This is not something to be encouraged.
Well said
Exactly 💯🇦🇺
G'day Cobber
Yes mate your dead right there
What a lemon
Onya Sonia
I think you've missed the point.
She is a definitely a Bradbury. He's not a legend, just a loser who took advantage of a situation for personal gain he never earned. Just like she did. They're both utter embarrassments to Australia.
I also feel sorry for the French pole vaulter whose junk got in the way. Although, his case was different lol
He gained a whole lot more female fans 😂😂😂
Remember Eric "The Eel" Moussambani at Sydney 2000. He swam 100m freestyle in 1 minute 52 seconds and got a standing ovation. He was a courageous, spirited gentleman. Bad performances can tell us a lot more about ourselves than good ones. I hope Rachael has fun with her newfound fame.
I think the difference for a lot of people is that Eric wasn't taking the place of someone else by going, and he also took it seriously and is now a swimming coach and advocate in his home country. I get that Rachel did technically qualify, but the qualifications were a bit of a joke, and I dont believe she's not aware there are much better female break dancers in Australia for whom it would have been a life changing opportunity. She's an advocate for her sport, she should have told them she's not good enough.
@@taniaelliott4078 yeah she qualified so get over it you losers
Her husband was a selector.@@alwynemcintyre2184
Well said. Agree 100%
@marklane58. Erik the Eel was from Equatorial Guinea. A poor nation with a population of only about 1.5 million people. No adequate training facility let alone coaching and all the other things that go into supporting and making Olympic grade competitors. Australia is an altogether different case and should be held to far greater standards and scrutiny and I'm glad to see that by most it is. She well knew and said as much herself that she wasn't competitive. Even her students were surprised and thought she was having a lend of them. She well knew she wasn't up to the grade so I wont be doing any simping for her.
Forging a career in the ancient study of breakdance history. I guess its crucial knowledge that millions of our nation's youth will need to be taught.
The lesson will be, that the breakdance community in Australia is systematically exxist and acist, and that change is needed. 😂
Australian Government a trillion dollars in debt. Yet they see fit squander tax payers money on such self interested niche courses at our universities and spending big money on a large contingent at every Olympics..
Reminds me of 'Eddie the Eagle' in the winter Olympics back in the '80s. He couldn't ski jump, but they let him have a go. 😂😂😂
Love Eddie the Eagle, happy memories
But he was entertaining. This put me off my dinner.
Do you have kids or a partner? Do they put you off your dinner when they don't do anything exceptionally perfect?
Your snarky comment was uncalled for. At least she had a go.
Did you compete in the Olympics?
Eddie the Eagle had to jump a Minimum Distance to Qualify and He did so he Deserved to Go .
Raygun on the other Hand, organised a Competion in Sydney which Know one Knew about and only had 15 Competitors and only the people who could afford the money to get to the event competed .They were not the best in Austalia. Lots of young Teenage Kids couldnt get to it and Thats how she won the Chance to go ! She pretty much cheated her way there .
@@fionasimpson6308If my partner was deciding who’d go to the Olympics like hers was I’m sure I’d be competing as well…..and to be honest I’d be making a better Job of it than her pitifully embarrassing effort 😂🤷♂️
Her husband is her coach. He was also a judge in the event she qualified and also on the selection committee for the Australian Olympic team. I think there is something dodgy going on here, I saw a kid throw a tantrum in Woolies the other day, and that kid rocked it!
Watch from 5:25
Was Ray Guns' husband a judge?
AAP FACTCHECK - Breaker Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn secured her place on the Australian Olympic team because her husband was the national selector and a judge at the qualifying event. This is false. Her husband was not a judge and the qualifying event was open to all.
i can see the information on her husband being the coach, but cant see any info on him being a judge in the event she qualified. Any links?
@@et1965 But he was a National Selector..... Devil is in the Detail. Nice try but.
She got the "do you want large fries with that" PhD.
If all the negativity everyone’s throwing at her turns out to be data generation for a postdoc follow-up, she’s gonna have the last laugh.
@@richardgale1287
Is that the "do you want to upgrade to large fries and drink" Postdoc.
Except the bleeding hearts the whole country is embarrassed by what our Olympic selectors sent to Paris she looked like she was having stroke terrible 😕
I'm not angry at her, I'm angry that so many people are talking about her that I have found it difficult to find any footage of the other break dancers there. Even the gold medal winner. It's not Rayguns fault that everyone is talking about her so much.
It's a pity this idiocy made it in to the Olympics as it spoilt an otherwise successful Australian campaign (though it's amazing how many people don't realise that Russia was not competing and would have been in the top group of the medal tally) So "Raygun" is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University Faculty of Arts and has a PhD in cultural studies. Her PhD thesis was entitled "Deterritorializing gender in Sydney's breakdancing scene : a B-girl's experience of B-boying" and focused on "the intersection of gender and Sydney's breaking culture". It shows what a joke the Australian education system is when the taxpayer assists/finances these sort of idiotic, pointless university degrees. The City of Sydney Council gave Gunn a $20,278 grant in 2022 to research “Spaces for Street Dance”. Obviously a very important topic, I wonder if she drove through the streets of Sydney looking for "spaces" ? She claims she trained 4 hours a day for this.......wow.
A rant for whom?
I agree entirely. Anything in relation to academia, Phd's, whatever, that at any point includes the terms "gender" "intersectionality" "spaces" or similar non sensical buzz words, you know straight off, it's going to be a load of utter woke, socialist, cringe useless shite!!!🫤💩. The Olympics is not about participation trophies for minimally talented DEI try-hards 🙄
What you fail to understand is that the point of any thesis is the process and not the subject or the outcome. The process is what teaches you and what demonstrates your ability to think and function academically. Higher education isn't all about book-learnin'. It's about new thinking, the ability to find a piece of information or a fact that has been reached by a faultless process, and which is demonstrably useful for the investigation of and creation of other things.
Idiocy is not the problem, that the idiocy was admitted to an Olympic event.
@xymonau2468 what you fail to understand is that your definition of "higher education" is different to that of me and many others.
That performance was so cringe..I'm embarrassed for her. Her manager aka her husband should be sacked immediately..looks like she was wounded and is writhing in agony.
Even better, he is her coach and apparently used to also breakdance but had to stop due to injury.
How did the number one critics of Raygun (America) fare?
No where to be seen!!!!
Medal Winners
Gold: Ami Yuasa, Japan
Silver: Dominika Banevič, Lithuania
Bronze: Liu Qingyi, China
They don't care it's not at LA 2028😂
What has that got to do with the price of eggs in China?? She was terrible, regardless of who won.
Come on, it shouldn't matter. She was terrible and that performance deserves the criticism it's been getting.
Rachel can't be our best female breaker, as we've seen others she's competed against leading up to this, but might I suggest priviledge played a part.
having her husband on the panel choosing who got to go certainly helped!!!
@@ThatGuy-ze5kk She qualified at the Oceania competition. Her husband had nothing to do with the selection process.
Apparently, a lot of the female breakdancers based in Australia didn't have passports so they couldn't compete in the Olympics. However, Raygun did have a passport.
Which is so ironic, considering what her PhD thesis was based on 😂
@@PatrickCooperPhotography-nw1pp I call it really suss that they had to already have a passport to enter the competition when it was in October last year. Plenty of time to get one if they qualified.
F***ing hilarious! Just as well Aussies are good at laughing at themselves, lmfao ... we will just ignore it now, hahaha
Ive been breaking out the roo moves daily she has woken me to the art of breakdancing and I loved how daggy it was especially when she said she never practiced 😆
She needs to get better at that as she has spoken out about all the hate she is getting. All I am seeing is people either laughing at it and/or going how did she get to go, surely there were better dancers than her.
Her nickname is not raygun, its Heisenberg, as she is breaking bad.
I'm calling her spudgun
Nice. She embarrassed Australia so badly. In a country with so much talent, she is mid and cringe among the normies let alone the actual talent.
I disagree, the Idiot who bought cocaine did that.
I’m convinced she was trained by Chris Lilley (Mr G) and Jonah from Tonga and his mates.
Poly force would never take her. Besides, Jonah is the best breaker at his school. Can spudgun really make the same claim? 😅
Hahahahaha! I was thinking Kath and Kim, but you are right!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Azmania3000I did say trained by Jonah and co. I didn’t say she is anywhere near as good as them 🤣
@@xymonau2468it’s the perfect mash up - I’m sure Mr G has some kind of kangaroo move in his drama class, add that to some questionable break dancing moves and there you have Raygun!
This person was just so embarrassing. I'm not sure if she's been let down by the new generation of people that are from the "everyone in the class gets a participation trophy" or she just has zero self-awareness. However, as an Aussie I think there's some serious questions that needs answering on why a person so unqualified was given an all-expenses paid for trip to Paris for her and husband courtesy of the Aussie tax payers. How many other athletes or should I say participants' were sent to Paris on the tax payers dime when they had no chance of placing anywhere on the score board. I'm also sad it does take away the focus on those who did well and represented their country with honour.
She did win the Oceania qualifying competition which gave her a spot, I am suss about that competition though as there were only 15 competitors and the first round of the 2 day event was supposed to get it down to a final 16.
She also knew that she didn't stand a chance as she competed at the world championships and came 64th out of 80.
I am side eyeing this as there is no way that the selection committee would have sent someone with that low a ranking for any other sport even if they met the official qualifying criteria.
I believe and can guarantee you if they took a pole of the Australian Olympic team-men and women every single one of them would say that was an absolute f****** disgrace-she has no right to be given taxpayers money.
Mate it’s a poll not a pole.
@@lynneperry7454...Lynn don't be that person!
@@rolla5731 I’m sorry, I hadn’t realised that correcting spelling was personal while piling on a female athlete was just a fair go.
@@lynneperry7454 What does his comment have to do with her being a female athlete? He was clearly referring to her lacking the world class talent in her discipline that other competitors brought to the table.
@@mitzee8621 ok, to clarify, from my comment about Ryan’s commentary, I actually complimented him on his balance. The bullying I was referring to was most of the rest of the nation. Treatment of her has been exceptionally unkind. She didn’t lack anything by Australian standards. She won her place fair and square. This means anyone else we sent wouldn’t have been as good.She was the topbAustralian selection. Give the woman a break.
The way you said "maybe... Don't do it Raygun!" really made my day, thanks for the laughs!:D
she no longer an aussi she is now a kiwi 🤣
Very very distant cousin..😂
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Thats just mean to kiwis
Over the years there have been many outstanding performances by Athletes at the Olympics that have stamped their country on the map. But alas, with Ray Guns performace she almost single handedly took Australia OFF the MAP !!
That ray gun thing should be charged with obtaining finds by deception, fraud.
Forced to pay back every cent that was spent on it going to the Olympics then thrown in gaol for at least a year.
really? I beg to differ
@@HelenBeeee 000 Differ as much as you like!!
@@HelenBeeee were you dropped on your head at birth repeatedly?
@@HelenBeeee Shut up Raygun
Every Olympics needs a Raygun. I'm Aussie and the girl totally represented our country. Give it a go, things don't to plan, have a laugh and move on. Far more serious shit happening in the world to stress about.
If only it was that simple for Ray. This aint going away. This will still be brought up for decades
Unfortunately it's people like you that encourage con artists like Raygun and her husband.
Well said!
This is proof, Austlria is loosing their culture.. It has been our culture to take the piss out of things for the longest time I been alive.. As an Australian, I laughed as this. This is gold and such a high stage for the world to see. Me and my mates would take the piss out of aech other and things all the time. This girl takes the piss out of break dancing is such an aussie thing to do. But all I see is media and the gen z comments talk trash about it. Is our sense of humour really dying now ? With the new generations. Its like their easyly offended by things we always took the piss about.
It may well be dying, but the elevation of social media to a useful part of our discourse puts a false perspective on everything now. There are still a lot of normal people out there who don't just whinge about everything for attention.
Omg is she ok? Did someone call a doctor for her? All I can say is break dancing has changed so much since we use to do it in the hall ways at school. Yes I know I’m going to cop flack for that comment, but come on. Really
Ryan knows all the moves. 😂
Break dancing was kinda cool 35-40 years ago, not 20 and definitely not popular enough to be thought of as eligible activity for the 2024 Olympic Games 😂
So was the music with breakdancing. ua-cam.com/video/lop7B5QuFyk/v-deo.html
The IOC were definitely 30 or so years too late to introduce it...
A friend who CHOSE not to apply for the team due to the restrictions tells me they had about 14 people who even applies from a much larger pool of talent. Firstly, to even submit your application. you had to be a citizen (not just a permanent resident like my friend). So thats the first point of culling candidates. Then, you had to provide your passport details on the application, that was another point that cut people down, as you had to already have a passport or pay the $400+ for an emergency passport, so that is a socioeconomic factor that reduces the pool again. To have to have a passport for someone thats never been able to afford to travel overseas, before the selection process and the heats is a bit backwards imho. They should of held heats, chose a candidate to send, THEN arrange that persons passport.
So a combination of everything in the video and what Ive heard from a dancer who wasnt able to qualify would easily lead us to here.
Whether she embellished and made the story to sound worse than it was and stretched the truth about it, maybe. But it all makes much more sense in assuming those details
I watched the doco on Netflix about the young Russian ice skater and what she and her Australian partner went through to get to the Olympics. The processes are definitely stacked against people who don't have much even if they are exceptionally talented.
Great explanation! I'm sorry your friend wasn't able to qualify.
Yep I found the event entry criteria from their website.
- hold a valid and subsisting passport of the country represented;
- be a Member of the WDSF NMB of the respective country;
- hold a WDSF Athletes’ Member ID Number (MIN); and
- hold a valid and subsisting WDSF Athletes’ License.
It was also a 2 day event held in Sydney so anyone who didn't live in Sydney also needed to organise transport and accommodation
You mean you have to be a citizen of the country to compete for them in the Olympics? That sounds so.... RIGHT
As an Australian, the reaction to Raygun’s performance puts a smile on my face or makes me laugh.
The Olympics is about countries participating in games together peacefully.
as an aussie i hope you can work out how she was selected because I cant
Speechless. I remember when I was a kid when break dancing was actually a thing. The kids in Primary School were better. Some moron told her she was good. Shame on them! But what courage!
She ends up in a movie, guaranteed!
There is NO WAY breakdancing or wall climbing should be "sports" in the Olympics. I'm sweating on Watching Paint Dry becoming an Olympic sport - riveting compared to the crap mentioned plus I reckon I'd kill it! The old adage of "If you can't do something lecture in it" has stood the test of time. Hi from OZ.
Ray Ray is awesome. She expresses confidence with every move. Best move is the kangaroo standing on 1 leg. You go grrl!
When i first heard this, i was angry and was like that is bs, very unfair. When i saw the dance later on, I was like oh, I get it, yeah zero makes sense. I laughed so hard. One thing about he is that her name is epic. Also, those sounds over the video OMG 😂
It is so mortifying, her Husband is the team coach. Thousands of tax payers dollars wasted on this women to express herself and grow in her style. She has wasted a place that should have been given to someone else more deserving. Then for the organiser to attack people for speaking the truth online as trolls is even more infuriating.
Thanks for the laugh Ryan
Australian here: no problem with Raygun at all. Maybe I'm just showing my age, but I'm nostalgic for the days when Australians could take joy from something like this, and not take ourselves so painfully seriously. I'd rather have a million more Rayguns in this country if as a swap we could deport all the people who unthinkingly joined the pile on because they get a kick out of trashtalking someone who, even if she's not a great breaker, is probably still better at breaking than her critics are at whatever their best skill is.
She’s entertaining, I’ll give her that. 😂
If moon at everyone is that entertaining and deserving of kudos too?
She is gutsy & funny. Didn’t give a dam and when for it. Zero score in her is golden!
This is what happens when the Olympic Committee gets it wrong with the introduction of dancing into Olympic competition.
This Raygun thing has gone over everyones head. She said she had no chance of winning so she was going to have some fun with it. Not take it too seriously and take a bit of the piss. She is not an embarrassment at all. People take sport way too seriously. Constantly watching the medal tally to see how great we are.
Australians are constantly taking the piss but when it comes to sport they are serious very serious. If our cricket team lose it is like someone was killed and we have to blame someone and they must be made accountable. It’s been like this for many years. Australia is a great country but when it comes to sport we are way too serious and it is a win at all costs attitude, people just cannot chill. I first thought the same thing about Raygun i thought she was an embarrassment, then as i learnt a bit more about her i understood her motivations and now i think she is great. Good on her. Just a real Aussie taking a bit of the piss at a so called sport that we were never going to win. Why take everything so seriously it is breakdancing for gods sake. It is barely a sport, Chill out. Some people just live in a black and white world and go through life never seeing the colours.
So many precious people complaining about her, it’s so funny to see Aussies lose their shit over this. “Aussies are laid back and we can laugh at ourselves” nek minute Wah Wah Wah lol
Because she took someone else’s place due to nepotism .. we don’t like crooks or arrogant people and she was arrogant. Plus we LOVE our sport and those athletes who work so hard to earn their position at the Olympics . The Australian Olympic Committee has to answer for her being accepted . They clearly didn’t look at her act prior…
@@linyep so bloody angry over nothing
I think like all other dance forms it is more art than sport, therefore, she is free to express herself however she wants. I do know, I do not agree with the whole world bullying her.
Do what Aussies do. Ignore it and it will go away when it gets bored. An massive embarrassment, but not as massive an embarrassment as the Australian government.
what a massively impressive Segue 🙄
@@HelenBeeee Segue to nowhere.
🙄🙄🙄
She bought laughter to millions around the world with her funny dance and single-handedly took the spotlight off the Opening ceremony. Maybe the Olympics wasn't the best place in terms of peak athletic performance, but she's also become a household name overnight! RayGun could land herself the next big breakfast cereal commercial.
Laughed at opposed to laughed with.
For fucks sake you want her to be rewarded for her corruption?! You are the rot that destroys society.
I'm Australian and I personally believe she should be able to enjoy herself. The press and social media have blown it out of all proportion!
$90,000 to enjoy yourself instead of compete seriously is not tax revenue well spent.
That’s Dr Raygun to you, pal
Hahahaha
Would be an empty classroom now.
People are just so missing the point here. Dancing is a creative form of movement and is open to interpretation. Unfortunately, people just didn’t have the same vision as Raegun about her performance. She knew she couldn’t compete against the other countries with the athletic tricks so she focused too much on the creative aspect of her performance. It fell short and wasn’t well received but I think she was unfairly victimised by the judges and the media. 😊
What no WORM...
As soon as you said "So I'm going to have to re-enact some of this performance myself", I was hitting the 'Subscribe' button 😂😂😂
A great indictment on modern attitudes, in the 90s kids were brought up to understand that if they put in the hard work and pushed themselves to the limit occasionally they could do a "Bradbury". Today's kids are encouraged to just put no effort or skill into their activities and they will still be rewarded "doing a raygun" 😂😂😂😂😂
Almost as bad as Americans electing "a Reagan" 😮
Breaking as a sport is a lot difference to skating, where there is a clear objective to pass the line first. It was originally about free expression, even some breaking competitors question whether breaking should be just about scores. But, at the end of the day it was put into the Olympics as a competition, so we can't really question the validity of that now.
"We needed something light hearted in 2024" I love u Ryan 😊💚
Imagine someone was from a country where swimming isn’t popular but they are the best swimmer in their country. They come to the olympics to represent their country but they swim slowly compared to the other athletes and finish a minute behind everyone else. Would people laugh at them? No. They would get supported and it would be a beautiful moment showcasing the Olympic spirit.
Only if it's a third world country.
Agree with you 100%, braver kinder world, Rachael exhibits both these qualities , her message of self love & belief that anything is possible should be the take home message, her passion and love for not only her sport but also her students should be inspiring & beautiful to others. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, you can still be kind when being critical of the performance, art is open to interpretation 🙏♥️
People are questioning if she was the best or if the criteria to compete at the trials eliminated the good dancers.
Pretty telling that the Oceania trials competition which was for 17 countries only had 15 competitors in the female division (don't know how many in the males), they were obviously expecting more when the competition was set up as the first round was supposed to be to get it down to the final 16.
If you didn't have money and a passport for the country that you wanted to compete for then you couldn't go to the trials in the first place.
For better or worse, Raygun put Australian breakdancing on the map.
Worse... It was for worse.
I thought she was very entertaining. Well done Raygun and ignore the haters.
Are you Ozzy dosnt sound like it, true ozzies would think you need a phsyc your not all there 🤪🤪
yes instead of being jealous because she was chosen to go to the Olympics in Paris maybe those critics should get off the couch and go try out yourselves. Let's see if you make it to LA. I doubt you have what it takes. How about supporting another Australian and stop bullying
@@56music64 her husband who is a coach for Olympic team got her in, not through her UN TALENT YOU can't be a real Ozzy if you think this was a great performance, she looked like a poshest idiot just like half the ozzy team
Yeah I'm amazed at the amount of people claiming to be embarrassed by Raygun. Not sure why they care so much, just want to hate someone. And this whole "that's me tax money!!!" argument is pathetic. If they really care about where their money is going there are thousands of other areas they should be concerned about.
Your allowed not to like or approve of something without needing credentials when it's plain as day something is wrong.
There are 12 year old girls on the streets of Melbourne who could shred this woman. The problem is clearly administrative and not a talent- pool issue.
You have seen red faces...she was just many years too late...wrong audience! We are all asking the same question what the?
Just so people know - Raygunn didn’t come on the same plane home as the athletes did . She’s staying in Europe for a bit. Probably because the majority of athletes and Aussies are pissed off about her when they train all day everyday for years to be top at their fields .
You do know someone has to be first. And what a lot of people don't seem to have any idea about is that dancing has changed a lot over the last hundred years or so. However, do the Olympics have a rule book on brake dancing, and if so, why was it not used when selecting dancers, or was the rules made up as it went along?
The people who were at the Olympics competed in a regional qualifying event to get there. The first in each region automatically got through and places 2-4 then went to some further competitions to see who got the final places.
Because of all of this the committee has said that each regions judges came from all over the world and were given the same criteria to judge with that was used at the Olympics.
Raygun happened to win the Oceania region, but seeing as she placed 64th out of 80 at the last world championships she knew that she wouldn't place. She said that she knew that she couldn't keep up with the younger competitors athleticism so she needed to be original. My take is that she didn't do the moves that we saw at the Olympics at the qualifiers.
the thing though, is that her fundamental "non-creative" moves are on a very basic level that yes the average joe you pull of the street couldn't do, but basically any breaker can easily do. Her "creative" moves i.e. kangaroo hop, kangaroo pose, sprinkler, fish flop, floor sweep etc are certainly moves that no other breakers have done, but at the same time so easy that an average joe could easily do. Nothing in her entire repertoire of moves screams "Olympic-caliber".
I can only speak for me, but this whole Raygun thing is so very cringe.
BTW Coach Sambo who coaches the China Team has asked people from overseas to go to Australia train them to improve their standard and what they have, then invite them to different competitions so they can compete with the world's best, and when they are at a very high standard, to get a team together and take on China. I said we would love to do that, and that community would love to do that. Australians get behind them and be a lot more supportive, so this can happen. Would love to see Australians take on China.
Is that a sport? Maybe she went for the after party. In the 2000 Olympics, Eric the Eel was the slowest swimmer and barely made it to the end of his race. The Australian spectators made him a hero and he was loved by all Australians. It was a heartwarming situation and showed the best side of sport in our country. This situation is completely foreign to us. Competing is the goal for us. Just give it a go!
Thank you Raygunn for giving me the biggest laugh!
She had the courage to do what she wanted to do. I read in the news this morning that her students are very upset about a lot of nasty comments from around the world. Haters will always hate. I’m an Aussie and I don’t like breakdancing but she made me smile.
Telling the truth isn't being nasty. An absolute scammer with her husband and an embarrassment to Australia
They must have a sickness to take her side in this.
Get a grip Gloria, she was horrendous. This isn't the participation games, it's the fucking Olympics.
I'm glad she had the courage to try to do what she wanted to do. I'm disappointed others didn't have the courage to choose a better competitor to send to the Olympics.