I wouldn't mind her version of breakdancing so much if she had a) paid her own way there (she can afford it much more than many of the other participants can, anyway), and b) hadn't been touted as "the best in Oceania/Australasia"...
And if, as you say, she had just piped down afterwards and not doubled down on it all. But, as seems to be the case with many of these women, she just couldn't help herself...
And those who can't teach, teach gym, right?
Yeah, I've heard that one.
From experience though, most "academics" can't even teach for shit, lol. Which is fine, when it's a specialist lecturer, but if they're also the subject coordinator, or the head tutor, then it makes just getting through the course an absolute slog...
Nah. Tokyo had softball (women's) and karate, neither of which were present in Paris. LA is reintroducing softball and baseball at the expense of "breaking" (this was its one-and-done) and other sports I can't specifically recall...
Generally, again with the exception of so-called "action sports" and shit like breaking, sports are decided based on the availability of venues and resources.
Which, oddly, means that Brisbane shouldn't have any issues facilitating whatever events they choose, though I don't think we have a whitewater course yet, and we need a stadium rebuild, but for the most part, 2032 is already largely ahead, on that front.
If we even make it to 2032 without some sort of all-consuming global conflict, that is...
I mean, if we’re taking the average “urban” Asian as being like the guy who won “breaking” at the Olympics for example, or, say, the Hmongs of Michigan, it’s no surprise that they hate whites more than the other races…
They seem to take to “ghetto” culture quite easily, unfortunately…
But then so do many whites (women in particular) who don’t know better, I guess…
On your latter question, I would say Noah Lyles running the 200 with Covid after jumping around like crazy before the start, underperforming, hugging his fellow competitors, and then collapsing and being wheeled away and taken to hospital would be up there. As would the mens’ relay team completely fucking up the baton handover and over-running the change like a bunch of schoolkids…
But both of those incidents could be put down to sheer arrogance, more than anything else…
The high jumper refusing to share gold (with the New Zealander) and then being totally annihilated in the resulting “jump off” was similarly arrogant, but more funny and farcical than anything, tbh…
I think the Taiwanese one got silver (?), but otherwise yes…
Ironically, she is a lecturer in dance, and literally wrote a PhD on breakdancing, which… Somehow seems appropriate.
There’s an old stereotype that academics don’t understand the real world, or how their “theoretical knowledge” plays out within it, and this performance, perhaps, fits with that…
Either that or she is an elaborate troll. I’m really not sure myself, tbh.
Yep, that's the one I meant.
To get rather dark about that one specifically, I bet that if (when?) China assaults Taiwan, this individual will be more than happy to use "her" special status as a woman to avoid the draft, lol...
I heard of at least a couple of instances of Ukrainian men dressing up as women to do exactly that, while fleeing across the border...
Easy way to out a coward. Especially one with apparent "fighting" skills, lol...
Pretty sure that the other M2F tranny boxer (from Taiwan) also advanced to their final, so... Yeah. There's undeniably a pattern there, even if the IOC, Paris Organizing Committee, media, et al., all deny it and would rather we didn't talk about it, lol...
They only managed to create this situation by disaccrediting the IBA, for expressly geopolitical reasons, and then ignoring their advice and all logic in the leadup to this, so... All the controversy is on them, imho.
Yeah, I think she nearly got banned for the doping-test-avoiding thing, but then played the “muh victimhood” card and got off. Much like Peter Bol, the South Sudanese Australian 800m runner…
But also, I personally don’t think that wearing an identity-hiding mask and sunglasses throughout your competition is particularly appropriate (at Olympic level). There’s doing something to put your opponents off (like the crazy hair many of them have), and then there’s… That.
Ah, I see. Fair.
I do miss talar svenska, lol…
I remember when I was in Stockholm I want to a “mini Spelen” for Olympics day last year, so that does make sense!
Congratulations by proxy for Mondo and Sjoestrom’s achievements then, ha.
Is the Turkey shooter the one who came out in his civvies and somehow won silver - is that who you mean?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Olympics called the OS before, lol…
This is the Daily Mail take on it:
Fuck absolutely everything about this, lol.
I like to think I have a fairly high disgust threshold these days, but man, what an absolute freak…
*Ex-Muslim, I believe.
I think that’s her whole grift - the ex part…
You should see the leftists on Reddit talking about this - they don’t even want us to discuss it, lol.
“Muh culture war” is the only argument they have left, at this point.
Of note, while this sounds somewhat like a happy pop song, it's actually a not-too-thinly veiled metaphor for death (which is fairly obvious from the video), and was originally titled "Die", lol:
She was partly inspired to write this by a friend's suicide, in High School. And then it was used in promos for Ansett Australia, which was our second-biggest airline at the time, just as it was collapsing (think Delta or American Airlines collapsing in the US)...
And the success of her Olympics and Paralympics performances ended up seriously messing up her mental health, and she... Kind of spiralled, for more than a decade (poor girl has been through a lot).
So you could argue that it is cursed.
But hey, it sounds inspirational and semi-chipper, so there's that, lol.
I'm still gonna claim Sydney as the best Olympics of this century (if we're counting 2000 as C21), too.
As an Aussie, that was basically the peak of our entire civilization, lol. It's been a mostly downward-trajectory (especially for Sydney and NSW) ever since...
To focus on one positive, though, the bit with the Olympic flag on the mechanized horse/Pegasus (?) on a hydrofoil, down the Seine, while the Parade of Nations (flags) was taking place under the Eiffel Tower, interspersed with a montage from each previous Olympics - that was pretty cool at least.
My personal highlight so far, I think.
They’ve also got kids in there with the drag queens, sadly but unsurprisingly. I’ve just noticed that… 😑
Watching the replay of it right now. The drag “fashion show” thing has gone on for over an hour, in between the athletes’ parade.
And the Christ figure drag queen is the DJ. But of course…
Eugh.
There was also headless Marie Antoinettes (plural), fireworks to symbolize blood, and a ménage a trois (with two vageuely non-binary looking males and one girl) in a library while “reading” classics of French literature…
It was… A lot.
Very (current year) French. Though whether that is a good thing in this case, I’m not sure…
Yeah, no you’re right. Field hockey in Aus is professional (i.e. we have a pro league), but their is no free-to-air tv rights, which is where the money is, so pay would be… Less than Women’s netball, or maybe even women’s rugby union, which is only semi-pro, lol…
Hockey is definitely still fairly niche here, and we’re like, world number 3 or 4…
Also regarding his “star” status, I had never even heard of him, and I technically went to school with our hockey captain (he would have been finishing up when I started, but still), and grew up playing it… So he’s not that big a name, imho, lol.
You’re first sentence is the correct one. We do have an NHS equivalent (called Medicare), but this was likely done by a private surgeon, if indeed it was done in Australia at all, given how many of these athletes live overseas anyway…
I can think of maybe six or seven large private health insurers off the top of my head, but I imagine there’s more than that… It tends to be a state-by-state thing, though, so I know that two of the insurers where I am only operate here…
We have private healthcare, it’s just more expensive.
He most definitely could have gone to a private surgeon, and in all likelihood did, because, much though Medicare (equivalent of the NHS) has its problems, I don’t think very many public doctors would endorse this decision…
I realise it’s not quite the same, but I can’t help thinking that it’s no surprise that a medical “industry” that believes it’s okay to chop off normal tits and dicks, etc., because teenagers feel that they are “in the wrong body”, only for them to regret it later, would also feel that this is “an acceptable sacrifice”, for the sake of sportsball…
Yeesh.
Australia had that, too, almost every day up until day 16. We also very nearly beat Japan (mostly let down by our team sports). It's not really all that unusual...
If you watched the diving, though, those three countries absolutely annihilated the competition, with China winning every single gold on offer, both men's and women's, lol...
It was insane. First time I've ever personally witnessed (on tv, at least) scores over 100.
The US mostly dominates swimming (as does Aus) and track (which Aus does not)...