As an Australian, I feel so embarrassed that this person represented our country. We have a proud Olympic culture and she has made us look like a complete joke.
Would've been better off sending 'Jonah from Tonga' to represent Australia/Oceanea in Olympic breakdancing. Chris Lilley's breakdancing parody as "Jonah from Tonga" was still a lot better & more athletic than "Raygun" 's effort. 😂
It’s probably because they didn’t want anyone that didn’t “look” Australian or Polynesian to represent australias first break dancing comp. G clef was way better than Molly and Raygun, but alas, her hue is not of the right complexion.
In terms of age, Raygun was not the oldest. AYUMI from Japan competed in this Olympics at the age of 41, and she performed powerfully and made it to the top 8. She, like Raygun, started breakdancing in her 20s and became a world champion at the age of 38. I hope she and the other finalists get more praise and attention.
She lacks talent n skill n is far too old to represent the sport of breakdancing. Period. It should have gone to someone younger n skilled in the sport. She's not a serious contender, certainly not for the Olympics. She stole an opportunity from someone more deserving. Shame on her!
It took me several days to watch any video showing Rachael allegedly breakdance. I didn’t know that breakdancing had become an Olympic sport. I thought Rachael was part of some woke event that happened during the Olympics. When I finally watched her I was shocked. If she was 5 years old I would understand because a 5 year old is going to dance like a 5 year old. That would have been cute. But Rachael is 36 years old and has a background in dance. I honestly wonder if she can dance at all. She really seems to think that she is good. She made the decision to make a fool of herself at the Olympics. I’m willing to bet that there are good breakdancers in Australia. They probably don’t have the money to support their dancing. Maybe in the next Olympics Australia can raise money for the actual people who can breakdancers and let them represent their country with pride.
The problem is definitely her husband being her coach. Raygun Doesn’t have the athleticism She lacks the groove, funk and soul that goes into breaking.
Every song she seems to pull out the same set of steps and moves. She has no versatility and doesn’t even seem to hear the music 😂. I feel like she could be decent but she needs better guidance for sure.
If she had a more honest coach she would’ve looked better. She is a victim of the yes man coach. We see players like this in team sports of coaches who coddle up to players instead of being honest and trying to make them better.
If Raygun started dancing 6 months ago, it’s understandable, but she had over a decade to get better. Then, she said she “gave her all” and even tried justifying the scores rather than admitting she sucked. Her mentality is proof of why she never improved.
I have only danced once and I think it looked about the same. Thank god there's no evidence for that so I can deny it ever happened😂 It says alot that they've tried to do damage control by getting rid of videos of this.
@kuuttinen How funny 😁. Where would you hide if you got caught dancing like that because most people with any sense would do just that. Yet Rachel had that whole year to come up with that routine & didn't think twice about posing it in the olympics. 😂
As an Aussie, I can only apologise. This blindsided us too & I'm embarrassed. When I first saw this, I genuinely thought it was an elaborate piss-take.
@@Bigglenndaddyeven if it was (which it wasn’t she’s just shit) it’s still wildly disrespectful to the other athletes that would’ve killed to have an opportunity at the olympics.
Australia actually has had a vibrant hip-hop culture for decades, this is why it is so galling for us because so many truly talented b-girls have been denied the opportunity to perform on the world stage at the Olympics. It felt like a massive troll from Rachel Gunn and it is maddening for all of us.
The Jamaican 4 man bobsledding team crashed after their 3rd run and disqualified. But their 2 man team placed 30 out of over 40 teams. That team beat New Zealand and came in just after the Netherlands. They beat also beat a USA and Japan squad who disqualified. Great results for a new squad from a warm country that weren’t evenly properly equipped. They should not be compared to RayGun at all.
Pretty sure Eddy the Eagle is a more apt comparison. But even he was a better athlete lol. Probably the most similar case was Elizabeth Swaney, that girl that got into the Olympics for snowboarding halfpipe or whatever by strategically picking random qualifying events with the fewest participants so it was easier to get a higher score. At the Olympics she predictably did horrible and got last 😂
Don't know about that. Eddy introduced an absolutely brand new way to do the ski jump. He didn't do well in the Olympics but his technique is now almost universal. But I think it would be hilarious if break dancing would make the T Rex move a requirement.
Do not praise her, do not pat her on the back, do not say, oh she tried. I am Australian and Ray(water pistol) gun embarrassed the whole of Australia. This is going to take 50 years to get over it. How dare she make a mockery of breaking and her country. Not to mention she took a spot that should have gone to a girl that would have given it her all. Not someone that said before she went she wasn't good enough. We have much better young people who could wipe her with the floor. Australia put up a petition, it recieved over 55,000 signatures in 3 days, demanding to know how this could happen.. guess what? It was taken down. Surprise!!! She refuses to apologise, so I will. Australia is sorry. There is something very fishy about all this.
But is that really her fault though. If anyone is to blame its the judges and committee. She in fact tried. That's more than what you're doing seeing that shes an olympian and you're not. I blame the system including the judges, and Australia. Raygun is now the mascot of Australia 😂
@obryn I couldn't give a Buggan if she is an Olympian and I'm not! WITF are you talking about? What have you done in your life? Zero? 😂😂 Take your 2 cents comment and shove it.... nicely!
It was taken down because it contained outright lies about her husband being a judge in the olympic qualifying event, and her being the founder of the organization that ran the slection process.
@@obryn Of course it's her fault; in what world would it not be her fault? RayGun had two options: Go to the qualifier, or not. After that, she was presented with another binary choice: go to the Olympics, or not. Nobody put a gun (ray, or otherwise) to her head and forced her to first attempt, then subsequently go, to the Olympics. She put herself in this position and the fact that anyone would call anything, 'Not her fault,' is baffling. The only area where I disagree with Ben Hart is at the end of the video; in my estimation, trying and failing is often worse than not trying at all. Why should she have ever wanted to go to the Olympics in the first place when she had to know that, compared to the competition there, she absolutely sucks? That's not to say she flatly sucks at breakdancing; she's definitely better than I am, for example. Of course, I'd never attempt to breakdance because, like RayGun, I am a rhythm-free Caucasian with almost zero fluidity of movement.
Same true in U.S. Many or most breakers from the inner cities can afford to travel outside their city to go to a qualifier. So that's an issue everywhere.
The IOC actually sponsors several athletes from developing nations so that there is more participation from places Equitarial Guinea that the presenter mocked in the intro for being so slow. I'm sure he was proud to have finished. Many athletes from somewhat mid tier countries are wealthy dual citizens who train in the U.S.
I genuinely believed at first "Rachel got the spot because Straya saw breaking being an Olympic sport as a joke and decided to take the piss out of everyone." But no, she got her position due to classism and nepotism. I wouldn't even call this woke bs, because it was a WOMEN'S category. What it was was her husband being on the selection panel and unfairly choosing her. That petition investigating how she got chosen needs to be reinstated bc wtaf. I'm a female hip-hop dancer in Australia. One of my friends is a great breakdancer- there's a massive community here- but she can't compete in a lot of competitions. Why? She's working paycheck to paycheck, never mind affording to fly out to other cities to get a chance to compete interstate. There are quite a few break-dancers like this, simply because breaking is a street-style whose original appeal was not to rich upper-class people, but people of lower socioeconomic standings who are creative and passionate for dance, and there's a larger community of breaking in that class. I know heaps of great breakers here, but they simply aren't rich enough to compete in competitions etc that would allow them to participate in the Olympics.
yup this. breaking as an elite competitor , esp in oceania, is only available to the rich, and the rich wont fund those who are less of to travel for comps. they rather win at their own game.
I agree. Im looking from the USA and I can see this woman used her academic position influence connections and maybe even Australian Olympic committee connections to get herself to Paris. Theres no way she got this on skills and merit. She definitely cheated her way up and the whole world saw it.
That husband may be the villain here. OR a victim? Couldn't say no to his wife? Maybe she's the bread-winner of the family and rules with an iron hand? There's an irony in her being a professor teaching break-dance politics, living a cushy life, and the actual dancers are too busy working to travel and compete. Wonder if Raygun know's that SHE'S the colonizer in this situation?
Sigh...for the twenty millionth time, her husband was not on the selection panel. There were no Australian judges at all at the oceanic olympic qualifying event that was held in Sydney. It was an international panel of judges. You can look up the names and countries of the judges for the qualifying event on the world dance sport organization's website. The petition was outright demonstrable lies. That's why it got taken down.
Saying, "Rachael is not at fault," needs to be qualified with, "Not at fault for cheating." All this video shows is that she (probably) did not cheat. What she IS at fault for is for disgracing her country at the Olympics, and for making a mockery of the sport of break dancing. And I would argue that is even worse.
Well the title let's ya know that it's about the cheating. Did you want Ben to go find raygunn and make her apologize for doing wack routines at the Olympics? There's nothing wrong with this video. It was informative, entertaining and made the point it was out to make. The video was made to look into her cheating scandal. Not to make Rachel pay for her transgressions of shitty dancing.
The irony is that she would've gotten away with it, if she didn't put up such a goofy show. Sure it would've still been bad, maybe she would've gotten 2 points instead of 0, but most importantly not become a meme and take all the attention.
Disagree Ben , I’m Australian Gunn was given a tax grant via the AOC . She got her hubby as her coach , thus both got a ticket to the worse olympics ever Australian tax dollars were used in all these shenanigans, whilst we have pensioners on the breadline Anna Meares and Gunn must be held accountable - it was the Aus tax payer who should be peeved #ParisOlympicsDisgraceful
Seriously, just laugh at the troll. An American ghetto dance should not be at the Olympics, much less be something you can get a PHD on. That she has done both, Kudos! Lets be real, no one in Australia cares about breakdance, or where their money is sent or we would see more spent on infrastructure, less on supporting the US wars.
Where are you getting the information regarding tax dollars? Everywhere else it says it was paid for by the committee and not a bit of tax dollars were spent on her trip or her husband.
Ben Hart, big ups and blessings from Johnbronski ( Toronto). As a 59 yr old original B Boy ( DJ) props to you and everyone like you finding Hip Hop Culture late in life. Your analysis here is perfect and on point. No arguments from me. As a savy Gen Xer, I'm glad you finished with the rebuke of western "Academic Standards." You're not lying.
Given how the 65 yo man is old and can't do the high impact move, from what we have seen in the video, I would say it is about equal. But the old man do not have the delusion of being a olympic athlete nor of being the top in the country and to represent the country.
Obviously the old man. Though really...I feel like _I_ could do better, and I have bad knees, I'm overweight (losing it, though), and a bunch of other health issues. Oh, _and_ I'm _older_ than her.
Why are you disgusted by her 😂 Why are you blaming the athlete. It should be the organizations and qualifiers and judges that let her through. She just competed. You're just another person with no accountability blaming it on someone who didnt do anything wrong except make a fool of themselves. That's the olympics committees fault in her country.
There's absolutely no way Rachel was better than that G-Clef girl. G-Clef was phenomenal, both in rhythm, style, and execution. I can't wrap my brain on how Raygun beat everyone here in the qualifier. I understand those were all random judges but something stinks. I can't prove any rigging took place but my goodness, she was the actual worst one at the qualifiers. People can try to defend her and say she won fair and square at the qualifiers but you can't deny her at the Olympics. Her not scoring a single point tells me something may have been up. How does the worst break-dancer there, reach the Olympics, apparently doing so legitimately? Like that young break-dancer said, her egregious performance is basically insulting to break-dancers.
@@obryn She's a university professor who's emphasis is on break dancing. If she can teach it she should know it. If she knows it, she knows she sucks. Knows she is not an Olympian. If she doesn't know she is a fraud in both her academic life and her dancing life.
@@Allen204 Not only is she an athlete but an olympian. 😂 Did she represent the best of the best, no. Does she look like an amateur, yes; but an athlete and olympian nonetheless.
Takeaways: (1) Molly was robbed, but it was petty theft. (2) Rachael is now the most famous Australian breaker since Breaker Morant, who was also a thief. At least Rachael hasn't murdered anyone (yet). (3) Perhaps we don't actually need perfect gender "equality". (4) Rachael understands that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Yes, petty theft because Molly not that much better. Rachael needs to do a better job of capitalizing on this opportunity. She's hiding. She should be on every TV show just explaining what happened and saying Breaking is just not a big thing in Australia. She's trying to get people into it.
its a theme in society and in particular entertainment industries. The Acolyte the starwars tv series had similar issues although these centered around gender. The show bombed and people who said so were accused of attacking the gender of the producer and the gender of those in the show. Same story there. The show was terrible and had nothing to do with the gender of anyone. Her selection as the 'top' female breakdancer from Australia raises some questions. Who were the judges that backed her and allowed her qualification for the Olympic games?
@@mrnixon2287 The Acolyte turned out to be one of the best Star Wars series. Their promotional campaign was atrocious, but the series itself was pretty good. If I was forced to pick three Star Wars series they would be: Andor, Mandalorian season 1 and The Acolyte. In that order.
I think her problem is that she's a really crappy breakdancer. Didn't she write her PHD thesis on breakdancing? Surely she has the ability to understand the distinction between interpretive dance & breakdancing.
Tbh I think she wanted to make a splash and wanted to do some that would be remembered and match the male level but it just didn't look good it was unique but not good Ngl I hate her for this but I slightly get it a bit now
@@squ34ky Like how the selection was conducted. Here is the information that is correct, not the mis-information from the petition. The Oceania Olympic selection event (The QMS 2023 WDSF Oceania Breaking Championships) in October 2023 brought together the top Breakers, both Bgirls and Bboys. A panel of 9 international adjudicators, a head judge and a chairperson who oversaw the competition, using the same judging system at the Paris Games and trained to uphold the highest standards of impartiality. These judges are all highly respected in their respective communities and in the international Breaking scene. Ultimately, Rachael Gunn and Jeff Dunne emerged as the top performers in exactly the same process, securing their spots to represent Australia in Paris. Their selection was based solely on their performance in their battles on that day. Contrary to circulating misinformation, Dr. Gunn's husband, Raygun's coach, was not a member of the selection panel or judging committee. This would have constituted a conflict of interest, and the Olympics hold strict standards that would never have allowed this to pass. For transparency, the official lists of judges and officials for the Oceania Breaking Championships (OBC) are publicly available on the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) website.
I'm glad you hit upon gender roles, as Raeguns entire thesis of over 400 pages was about deconstructing the whole gender norms in breaking, and look what it got us.... Stay in your lane Ms. Gun, literally.
Dude, you are AMAZING! I'm 56 and my breaking moves include falling down my stairs, flailing trying to grab something to stop myself and breaking a couple fingers!!
She now has VICTIM status. She is untouchable in Aus, will receive financial benefits, will take paid time off UNI for stress, will parlay this into a career as a feminist whiner. Australia is fkd now.
It's a normal thing here and it's disturbing along with what happened to David mcbride afew months ago opposed to Ben Smith who last i read around davids imprisonment walks freely in our society still herald as a war hero 😢
Not knowing who you are I thought you were joking about the competitive breakdancing until you played the clip. As a 56 year old I’m highly impressed! Keep up the great work. You’re awesome.
One of the worst parts that rarely gets talked about is she did a "yawn" during the other competitors turn to dance. She probably saw it in a movie and read about it how there can be taunting in a street dance off, etc. She literally is just trying to perform and act that she thinks is how it's done. The Olympics is a completely different environment and respect for the other competitors and athletes should be respected and her yawn was disgusting.
That was the #1 thing that bothered me about her, too!!! If you watch in some of the other sets, the other breakers were very friendly and respectful to each other, and yet her having the audacity to act like that, when we know, she knew she wasn't all that... 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
exactly! such a poser action! so cringey when you can't even back up your affected "boredom" with actual exciting moves. plus hypocritical: how is she going to accuse anything of being "patriarchal" and then engage in bravado on a global stage devoted to good sportsmanship?!? wildly and tragically self-unaware
@@SouthFloridaThrifter I would bet that in her doctoral thesis there's a section in there on how during a dance off, the one not dancing will make faces, wag their finger and other dismissive actions to show that the one dancing isn't "all that". Even when you watch some of her other competitions, when she finishes her "dance" she acts like she's so intense and almost a mad vibe that someone would ever try to top that. She's playing a character she thinks is an authentic way to be...
She was one of our dei hires. She did a study on how toxic males kept her out of breakdancing, so our dei society sent her to show all those toxic men she is great.
… and proofed that it would have been the right choice to keep her out of breakdancing to save face for Australia. Oh well. Our foreign minister turns 360 degrees and beliefs to face in another direction. She wants to save countries hundreds(!) thousands of kilometres away - yeah, nobody got this… and she beliefs in bacon of lights. BACON! 😂 I am not kidding, she is the worst shit show ever. So we know what woke second hand embarrassment can do to a country. My condolences.
7:33 that’s another point. You said the pro break dancers spend 10 hours a day on their craft. She said in an interview that she dedicated 3 to 4 hours a day to prepare for this. We all know that any Olympic discipline requires at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
Welp with her partner 'coaching' her - have you seen him dance? It's on YT somewhere. He is - unbelievably perhaps - even more crap than she is. And 3-4 hours my arse. 3-4 minutes once every second week is more like it.
As an Aussie, so embarrassed by the obvious corruption and mocking disrespect from this selfish woman and all involved with her selection! I hope this ends up in Court. I want to see her get more than '5 minutes of fame' to uncover this horrendous abuse upon the Breakers community.
I can't believe how ridiculous the Australian Olympic committee looks! The Olympics are for the best of the best in the world! She did her best but unfortunately it wasn't great. The Aussie Olympic committee is at fault here! Not hers. Our athletes are top notch what happened?
@@johnhernandez7599 I think that is obvious. What an epic troll. Who else is being talked about? I can name only one Olympian. Rachel Gun. Well played.
@@mr_knowitallI guess the joke was that handing out participation trophies makes the simpler specimens to imagine they're actually great and think they could compete in Olympics. To the question of how the hell did she qualify, I have no answer.
Given this is my first time watching any females breakdancing, even the good ones in this videos show that the women’s version should be named as a completely different dance form. It is desperately non- dynamic when the women try it. Just sayin’. If the women came from an acrobatics and gymnastics background and could work with a sprung floor, it might be better.
100%. Like all sports, it's important to recognise the difference between male and female biological strength and athleticism. You can't expect the same level and type of performance from both genders
@@virginiacharlotte7007 B-girl Scar is a professional dancer at sporting matches and could have been trained to improve her breaking (she is more of an acrobat). She went to a preliminary comp in Melbourne but Raygun was also successful there. Why would you keep bothering when Raygun is always comes out on top? There are heaps of videos online and Raygun always wins because of her passion and (I believe) coach's influence.
Put simply, if you are a senior member of a "governing body" you should not be able to compete in the Olympics. A governiing body's role is to promote the sport and help improve those with talent to get them to Olympic level. If you or your organisation have any say in who qualifies and who doesnt, you need to be objective. We've all seen those competitions with rules to the effect that "Employees and their immediate familes are unable to enter". She manipulated the system to get herself a spot, and embarrassed a nation while doing it. As someone who "was there" in the 80's, Break Dancing isnt about "doing the worm" on the floor for 5 minutes. It started as a substitute for street fighting. Its all about "the burn" by showing off better moves than your opponent, and "dissing" them along the way (in a creative and fun way). I doubt she ever realised that basic concept of what it is all about. It seems like her understanding of it is "a form of interpretive dance". She failed! I lost all interest in "Paris 2024" after the Opening Ceremony. This is just another of many examples showing that the 2024 Olympic organisers (including the IOC) have completely forgotten what the Olympics are all about.
She’s a lefty academic larping as a breakdancer. If you read her 2023 article (Global Hip Hop Studies, 4(1), 39-56) she’s worried that the olympics will make breakdancing more popular and subject to “transnational commercial organizations and institutional governing bodies” so she did her best to make it unpopular.
@@koejoe If you were the break dancing roots, would you actually want her praise? If I were a person important to break dancing's roots, and she mentioned me as one of her inspirations, I'd write her a polite letter thanking her and asking her to please never say that in an interview again.
How dare she decide what is good for the community of breakdance ,Breakdancing can offer those who do it a chance to be a part of something and by making it mainstream or even putting in the main areas is not for her to decide .,we have so many indigenous youth who do this and would really benefit from it going mainstream .Talk about white privilege !!!!!!!
@@brandonjames412 I meant more in her thesis and her achedemics. A PhD in breaking one would hope she acknowledges history. But I have a feeling she doesn’t at all.
yes, Holy Molly should have been sent. I watched a video (on YT) of a battle between Molly Chapman and Rachel Gunn. Molly was, by far, much better than Rachel (although in that video she did do more breakdancing moves than she did at the Olympics) but lost to Rachel. She should have won. ruclips.net/video/fUozjgMNMN8/видео.htmlsi=QHW84SP8WOIn4dnl
The fact that we have to try to logically analyze this is depressing. I saw a few clips of her at the Olympics and turned away in cringe and shame. There is nothing to discuss, this is a horrible human being and she screwed up things for many people that worked much harder than she did (if she really worked at all).
Remember Eddie, the Eagle? I loved this guy, hell, _everyone_ loved his guy. Not because he was so good at ski jumping, because he wasn't, but because everyone knew and felt that he _loved_ this sport. He poured his heart into this. In a country with _zero_ ski jumping tradition, with no support he gave his everything for the sport he loved. _He_ did never mock his sport or his nation or the Olympis, unlike this Raygun person. And now excuse me, for some reason I feel like watching Cool Runnings.
dude's a paid opposition. all this Raygun thing was a ruse so the west has more control on the scene while making it out as a low tier competetion. Nc try, bud.
The fact that she thinks she's real B Girl is all you need to know ! She made a mockery of Breaking and the real issue is no one is talking about the winners !!!
Personal I’ve always thought it’s meant to be rythmic acrobatics and gymnastics, not liberal arts degree plus flopping around. So she’s irreversibly ruined its chances for a sequel
This is literally deliberate. I've been watching these social planers since the late 90s. They crippled the tech industry around 2007ish.. alot of folks running the back bone networks and such started to get pushed out... then virtualization & smart phones hit.. it was like a perfect storm. And then look how much back Leah in the industry with windows 10.. hell just the lack of the ALT key-menu screwed over my productivity - turning 6 seconds of work into 30+ or minuets while I hunt for wherever they put the command
They did the same thing with Hip Hop. In the 80’s and 90’s you had performers like De La Soul, Del, A Tribe Called Quest and so on. You had the NWA’s however that was a genre of the same art form. When a certain demographic for a hold of it all of a sudden everyone became a “G” and that’s ALL THEY ALLOWED to be played. It was intentional. This is the same thing. This was done on purpose in my opinion.
As an Australian, I can confirm Australia is ten times more broken than any country in the world when it comes to out of control feminists and wokism. Its just embarrassing. All she had to do was say she was a woman and instantly they let her compete.
As an Asian, I researched European history a lot, and, I wonder, wtf happened to you guys? You used to be WAY stronger than this. What on Earth happened to you guys? Now you're so self-hating and whiny and entitled. Your ancestors would be rolling in their graves
I lived there in Melbourne for a year from America. I had an awesome time and learned a lot but yes man women over there are not right in the head. I am glad Raygun is showing the world how women fail themselves when everyone gets a trophy for participation.
Government Trolling Medals: Australia: Gold (Fake Dancer) Turkey: Silver (Sent men to box woke females) Taiwan: Bronze (Sent men to box woke females), GENIUS!!!
Haven’t read the comment but their is a big difference between having an objective opinion based on the reality of how bad she was and the story of how she got there as opposed to hate , there is a reason why everyone is laughing , doesn’t mean they hate her
I don’t want her to get away with disrespecting the breakers that did the work and had the talent to be great. Her lame, “crying in a locked room because the boys are mean to me” story doesn’t explain her delusional opinion of herself. If she loves breaking culture so much, why does she have no discernment about what is good or not? It seems like she sucks as a break dancer, sucks as a professor/authority figure on the subject and most of all she sucks as a human being. Delusional, bragging obnoxiously in her interview about her nonexistent musicality, etc.
The Australian government is led by a s0cıalıst prime minister raised by a single mother. Taxpayers have been his father figure and provider throughout his life. He has selected and surrounded himself with w0ke females and s1mps who hate Whıte Western people. A public inquiry is not going to happen.
@@ryanvacation7319 Only the mainstream media and sports people who have carved a career in scamming the taxpayer. Everyone else is laughing at Dances with Wombats.
So many twists and turns in this video. Your response to this whole situation was more nuanced and intelligent than any other I've seen on the subject, yet it doesn't surprise me, given the quality of content you've put out online up until this point. Thank you.
The problem here is her entitlement and pride. At 60 years old and with less time you’re way better at breaking than Rachel. Rachel doesn’t get better because she doesn’t think she has to
I was under the Impression she had been breakdancing for at least 16 years considering one of the defences Australia’s Olympic team chief Anna Meares used was “In 2008, she was locked in a room crying being involved in a male dominated sport as the only woman, and it took great courage for her to continue on and fight for her opportunity to participate in a sport that she loved.”
Lol I heard that and was like Wtf is going on in Australia?? She is crying in a room over males existing? What sport was it that she was the only woman? Football? They have women teams for everything but that in the US and probably hockey? Regardless that is super "woke" to be crying over being the girl on an all boys team.
Always check the eyes. There's something about the eyes. A glimmer, a certain shine, a deep seated neurosis, you will have no problem imagining the person with an axe in their hands, circling you, jabbing you, it's terrifying.
I KNEW that you'd weigh in on this, and I am so happy that you did. The really sad thing is that we never ONCE saw any of the great performances....NOT ONE.
@@jackharrison7613 you say I'm rude but here you are saying wherever she teaches is messed up. idk about you but Australia isn't really a place to find female breakdancers, let alone one that probably teaches in it. Name another female break dance professor in Australia. lol She might be bad but probably because there isn't many options where shes at. Yet I'm the rude one for calling out people that really dont grasp the whole situation. 😂 Cry some more
You move well, good on you! As an Australian, I want to apologise for that embarrassing display; it overshadowed all of our athletes who worked so hard to get to the Olympics and win a medal.
Sir, I really appreciate your coverage of this event. You helped me, a completely uneducated viewer, understand and respect your sport/art/passion much better. Thank you for the help to unpeel the layers of complexity here.
It had to be a rigged tryout. There is no way that dancing was Olympic quality. She should be ashamed of herself passing it as hate. Its not hate its criticism of a lousy routine.
Full analysis: She belongs to the chattering leftist academic class, she has a PhD in Breaking intersectional studies, and she assumed that this would qualify her for the Olympics.
Because whoever set the rules for qualifications for the Olympics allowed that to happen. Why did someone have to belong to a dance studio ,for instance.? For a sport that started on the streets?
Honestly Mr. Hart, I've enjoyed just listening to you talk; whether it's your own personal affairs, fields you have expertise in, or just regular stuff.
Thank you for a properly researched video on this without bullshite or politics, i knew not to trust the journalists writing again about something that they know nothing about without even 5 mins of research on their part, journalists really have sunk so low on standards
@@clutchboi4038 A lot of people have alleged that it was rigged so that a lot of more worthy people were not made aware of the qualification event, further narrowing the selection pool.
While her performance lacked, the information provided by that petition mentioned in this video has been proven to be entirely false and as a consequence that petition has now been removed.
@@ramigilneas9274most of us could I guess - and I am a 47 year old chronically ill stay at home mom. BUT I would NEVER dare to embarrass me and my country in that way. There is dignity and then there is Rachel 🥴
It was probably their dream to compete together in the Olympics. Just goes to show how delusional they both are. He also thinks he can keep up with the world top breakers!? Unbelievable....
@@jal051That just shows how crazy they both are!? She was lucky because it just happened that way, but how on earth did he think he could prevail against the male breakers when the quality seems to be better than the females!?
You're wrong about it not being her fault and here's why... you admitted that if she performed like she did in the qualifiers she would have lost but nobody would have noticed. But she made a conscious decision to add moves and elements into breaking that aren't part of breaking. In fact they're not even dance moves at all. She chose that routine, and that's the reason she's receiving all the backlash. Nobody expects female Breakers to be world-class. But what she did was a mockery.
Is not a style, not creative, not unique. Is a naive display of her perception of it. This is a lesson for the entire world, and perhaps that’s her only contribution.
Geography has a lot to do with why Rachael was able to qualify. There are far better break dancers but Australia is a small country spread out over a large geographic area, and break dancing is a dance/sport where the best dancers are often from economically humble backgrounds that would preclude them from traveling. While she didn't cheat, the governing body that chose Rachael didn't do much if anything to reach out to or support better performers who might not even know breaking was to be in the Olympics. The way the "sport" structured its qualifying events self-selected amateurs who had the means to compete. Rachael, like a lot of academics, had some blinders on with respect to her own privilege despite writing an entire dissertation about other people's privilege. And I fully get that in previous years, plucky amateurs have captured the hearts of people rather than provoked rage. This might have been a case of people who would normally scoff at accusations of "cultural appropriation" recognizing that break-dancing elites are often not 35-year-old white academics. In any case, the backlash against Rachael did get a bit out of control but I hope the Olympics looks a little harder at the way qualifiers are set up to prevent this in the future.
What you're describing is why DEI exists. It's about outreach to communities that might not be able to showcase their talents as readily as more affluent talents. It's often mischaracterized as "preferential treatment" for those lesser known talents, when we can now see that sometimes , without DEI, the more affluent people rewarded are essentially self-preferred.
When they said "dance like no one's watching", they didn't mean to do it at the Olympics FFS
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Brilliant 😂
As an Australian, I feel so embarrassed that this person represented our country. We have a proud Olympic culture and she has made us look like a complete joke.
@@Tori345that's what I'd like to know too. Australia did very well at the Olympics, yet all everyone is talking about is this.
Where is the vetting process? It's like hiring a bad employee because of an HR decision but management doesn't evaluate after the fact.
Luckily the Olympics are a joke too.
Would've been better off sending 'Jonah from Tonga' to represent Australia/Oceanea in Olympic breakdancing. Chris Lilley's breakdancing parody as "Jonah from Tonga" was still a lot better & more athletic than "Raygun" 's effort. 😂
It’s probably because they didn’t want anyone that didn’t “look” Australian or Polynesian to represent australias first break dancing comp. G clef was way better than Molly and Raygun, but alas, her hue is not of the right complexion.
In terms of age, Raygun was not the oldest. AYUMI from Japan competed in this Olympics at the age of 41, and she performed powerfully and made it to the top 8. She, like Raygun, started breakdancing in her 20s and became a world champion at the age of 38. I hope she and the other finalists get more praise and attention.
Yes! Ayumi amazing
She lacks talent n skill n is far too old to represent the sport of breakdancing. Period. It should have gone to someone younger n skilled in the sport. She's not a serious contender, certainly not for the Olympics. She stole an opportunity from someone more deserving. Shame on her!
Raygun beat ayumi in breaking in Australia
When you exercise regularly, you keep your fitness well into 50s.
Ray cun.. Only started a couple years ago. A fad if you will. 😮
I have never witnessed such an utter lack of self awareness as this woman has.
She is a narcissist, that's why.
Lost in her own delusion.
@@kateelderson and a good reason for people to be angry.
I have seen it quite often in the last years. It usually comes with a woke mindset. It’s usually my sign to RUUUN! 😂
It took me several days to watch any video showing Rachael allegedly breakdance. I didn’t know that breakdancing had become an Olympic sport. I thought Rachael was part of some woke event that happened during the Olympics. When I finally watched her I was shocked. If she was 5 years old I would understand because a 5 year old is going to dance like a 5 year old. That would have been cute. But Rachael is 36 years old and has a background in dance. I honestly wonder if she can dance at all. She really seems to think that she is good. She made the decision to make a fool of herself at the Olympics. I’m willing to bet that there are good breakdancers in Australia. They probably don’t have the money to support their dancing. Maybe in the next Olympics Australia can raise money for the actual people who can breakdancers and let them represent their country with pride.
Rachael Gunn is the type of person who demonstrates what expectation vs. reality is.
..for the clinically insane.
She showed us that karen and the Olympics don't mix.
The problem is definitely her husband being her coach. Raygun Doesn’t have the athleticism She lacks the groove, funk and soul that goes into breaking.
The husband clearly gave her those whack moves she used in the Olympics. I'm sure she's yelling at him now.
Every song she seems to pull out the same set of steps and moves. She has no versatility and doesn’t even seem to hear the music 😂. I feel like she could be decent but she needs better guidance for sure.
If she had a more honest coach she would’ve looked better.
She is a victim of the yes man coach. We see players like this in team sports of coaches who coddle up to players instead of being honest and trying to make them better.
Groove, Funk and soul is vague BS.
She just didn't do anything impressive.
@@benhartcommentaries "Whack"? One should always drop the 'h' from the word when attempting to speak in the Hip hop vernacular, dear boy.
Her performance reminds of that one time I came home to find my cat had gotten into the entire bag of catnip.
I'm sure your cat was 10x more electrifying than raygun😂
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As a cat owner, I can relate. Brilliant comment.
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you know that cat was more athletic, but probably just as disjointed
If Raygun started dancing 6 months ago, it’s understandable, but she had over a decade to get better. Then, she said she “gave her all” and even tried justifying the scores rather than admitting she sucked. Her mentality is proof of why she never improved.
I think you meant 6 seconds ago.
I have only danced once and I think it looked about the same. Thank god there's no evidence for that so I can deny it ever happened😂 It says alot that they've tried to do damage control by getting rid of videos of this.
If she did her best i do wonder how it looks if she did her worst 😂😂
@kuuttinen How funny 😁. Where would you hide if you got caught dancing like that because most people with any sense would do just that. Yet Rachel had that whole year to come up with that routine & didn't think twice about posing it in the olympics. 😂
Cringe Gun 🔫....She'll blow you away with cringe.
Imagine being so bad you overshadowed your country's Olympic achievements...
Imagine being so bad, you got your entire 'sport' thrown out of the Olympics...
@@maynardkrebs8941 oh shit for real?
As an Aussie, I can only apologise. This blindsided us too & I'm embarrassed. When I first saw this, I genuinely thought it was an elaborate piss-take.
It completely overshadowed the remainder of Australian, Olympic teams excellent performances.
The funny thing it was just an elaborate piss take lol
@@Bigglenndaddynah she n her husband are scammers
@@Bigglenndaddyeven if it was (which it wasn’t she’s just shit) it’s still wildly disrespectful to the other athletes that would’ve killed to have an opportunity at the olympics.
I feel sorry for you. It is the opposite of Turkey, which has now been elevated in everybody's opinion, because of the astonishing Mr Dikeç.
Moreover, Raygun coverage has overshadowed all the olympic medal winners in Aus.
Which means its a good thing
@@mattk8810 I'm sure the medalists love you
she needs to be a pariah of evil
and beyond lol
Paris 2024 is the Raygun Olympics, the same way Berlin 1936 is the Jesse Owens Olympics
Australia actually has had a vibrant hip-hop culture for decades, this is why it is so galling for us because so many truly talented b-girls have been denied the opportunity to perform on the world stage at the Olympics. It felt like a massive troll from Rachel Gunn and it is maddening for all of us.
That's what I'm hearing
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The Jamaican 4 man bobsledding team crashed after their 3rd run and disqualified. But their 2 man team placed 30 out of over 40 teams. That team beat New Zealand and came in just after the Netherlands. They beat also beat a USA and Japan squad who disqualified. Great results for a new squad from a warm country that weren’t evenly properly equipped.
They should not be compared to RayGun at all.
Pretty sure Eddy the Eagle is a more apt comparison. But even he was a better athlete lol. Probably the most similar case was Elizabeth Swaney, that girl that got into the Olympics for snowboarding halfpipe or whatever by strategically picking random qualifying events with the fewest participants so it was easier to get a higher score. At the Olympics she predictably did horrible and got last 😂
Don't know about that. Eddy introduced an absolutely brand new way to do the ski jump. He didn't do well in the Olympics but his technique is now almost universal.
But I think it would be hilarious if break dancing would make the T Rex move a requirement.
@@gobot4455 dang I didn’t know that about him, that’s pretty cool.
Oh come on.
Yeah poor comparison
Do not praise her, do not pat her on the back, do not say, oh she tried.
I am Australian and Ray(water pistol) gun embarrassed the whole of Australia.
This is going to take 50 years to get over it.
How dare she make a mockery of breaking and her country.
Not to mention she took a spot that should have gone to a girl that would have given it her all. Not someone that said before she went she wasn't good enough.
We have much better young people who could wipe her with the floor.
Australia put up a petition, it recieved over 55,000 signatures in 3 days, demanding to know how this could happen.. guess what? It was taken down. Surprise!!!
She refuses to apologise, so I will.
Australia is sorry.
There is something very fishy about all this.
Divide and conquer maybe. Raygun could be undercover gubment agent
But is that really her fault though. If anyone is to blame its the judges and committee. She in fact tried. That's more than what you're doing seeing that shes an olympian and you're not. I blame the system including the judges, and Australia. Raygun is now the mascot of Australia 😂
@obryn I couldn't give a Buggan if she is an Olympian and I'm not! WITF are you talking about?
What have you done in your life? Zero? 😂😂
Take your 2 cents comment and shove it.... nicely!
It was taken down because it contained outright lies about her husband being a judge in the olympic qualifying event, and her being the founder of the organization that ran the slection process.
@@obryn Of course it's her fault; in what world would it not be her fault?
RayGun had two options: Go to the qualifier, or not. After that, she was presented with another binary choice: go to the Olympics, or not. Nobody put a gun (ray, or otherwise) to her head and forced her to first attempt, then subsequently go, to the Olympics. She put herself in this position and the fact that anyone would call anything, 'Not her fault,' is baffling.
The only area where I disagree with Ben Hart is at the end of the video; in my estimation, trying and failing is often worse than not trying at all. Why should she have ever wanted to go to the Olympics in the first place when she had to know that, compared to the competition there, she absolutely sucks?
That's not to say she flatly sucks at breakdancing; she's definitely better than I am, for example. Of course, I'd never attempt to breakdance because, like RayGun, I am a rhythm-free Caucasian with almost zero fluidity of movement.
The disgusting thing is that dancers from remote areas or poorer communities couldn't afford to get to the "championships" in Sydney.
Same true in U.S. Many or most breakers from the inner cities can afford to travel outside their city to go to a qualifier. So that's an issue everywhere.
So they're broke bcs they just breakdance all the time?
The IOC actually sponsors several athletes from developing nations so that there is more participation from places Equitarial Guinea that the presenter mocked in the intro for being so slow. I'm sure he was proud to have finished. Many athletes from somewhat mid tier countries are wealthy dual citizens who train in the U.S.
@@MrCmon113 Try putting some thought into your comments. Otherwise, you are just a time waster.
I genuinely believed at first "Rachel got the spot because Straya saw breaking being an Olympic sport as a joke and decided to take the piss out of everyone." But no, she got her position due to classism and nepotism. I wouldn't even call this woke bs, because it was a WOMEN'S category. What it was was her husband being on the selection panel and unfairly choosing her. That petition investigating how she got chosen needs to be reinstated bc wtaf.
I'm a female hip-hop dancer in Australia. One of my friends is a great breakdancer- there's a massive community here- but she can't compete in a lot of competitions. Why? She's working paycheck to paycheck, never mind affording to fly out to other cities to get a chance to compete interstate. There are quite a few break-dancers like this, simply because breaking is a street-style whose original appeal was not to rich upper-class people, but people of lower socioeconomic standings who are creative and passionate for dance, and there's a larger community of breaking in that class. I know heaps of great breakers here, but they simply aren't rich enough to compete in competitions etc that would allow them to participate in the Olympics.
yup this. breaking as an elite competitor , esp in oceania, is only available to the rich, and the rich wont fund those who are less of to travel for comps. they rather win at their own game.
I agree. Im looking from the USA and I can see this woman used her academic position influence connections and maybe even Australian Olympic committee connections to get herself to Paris. Theres no way she got this on skills and merit. She definitely cheated her way up and the whole world saw it.
Hope the real Australian breakdance community can show the true art after this
That husband may be the villain here. OR a victim? Couldn't say no to his wife? Maybe she's the bread-winner of the family and rules with an iron hand?
There's an irony in her being a professor teaching break-dance politics, living a cushy life, and the actual dancers are too busy working to travel and compete.
Wonder if Raygun know's that SHE'S the colonizer in this situation?
Sigh...for the twenty millionth time, her husband was not on the selection panel. There were no Australian judges at all at the oceanic olympic qualifying event that was held in Sydney. It was an international panel of judges. You can look up the names and countries of the judges for the qualifying event on the world dance sport organization's website. The petition was outright demonstrable lies. That's why it got taken down.
The funniest part for me is that ordinary people (not athletes) are learning her routine and putting it on RUclips.
Exactly!
The majority of which are better than what she did 😭
I’ve seen people do her own dance even better 😂
Saying, "Rachael is not at fault," needs to be qualified with, "Not at fault for cheating." All this video shows is that she (probably) did not cheat. What she IS at fault for is for disgracing her country at the Olympics, and for making a mockery of the sport of break dancing. And I would argue that is even worse.
She did cheat by cheating her way into the olympics. Period
Well the title let's ya know that it's about the cheating. Did you want Ben to go find raygunn and make her apologize for doing wack routines at the Olympics? There's nothing wrong with this video. It was informative, entertaining and made the point it was out to make. The video was made to look into her cheating scandal. Not to make Rachel pay for her transgressions of shitty dancing.
You're being a hateful little gremlin.
It's was funny precisely because people know that good breakdancing looks different.
The irony is that she would've gotten away with it, if she didn't put up such a goofy show. Sure it would've still been bad, maybe she would've gotten 2 points instead of 0, but most importantly not become a meme and take all the attention.
if anything she became more famous because of it and milk that
"If it was not for those meddling kids, I would have gotten away with it..."
@@deadlypendroppingby nicely said, simply put and too the point ❤️. She’s an activist and won’t admit it.
Um it looks like she is getting away with it
Disagree Ben , I’m Australian
Gunn was given a tax grant via the AOC . She got her hubby as her coach , thus both got a ticket to the worse olympics ever
Australian tax dollars were used in all these shenanigans, whilst we have pensioners on the breadline
Anna Meares and Gunn must be held accountable - it was the Aus tax payer who should be peeved
#ParisOlympicsDisgraceful
As an Aussie, I agree. We need a Royal Commission into this corruption. Speak Truth to Power!
Seriously, just laugh at the troll. An American ghetto dance should not be at the Olympics, much less be something you can get a PHD on. That she has done both, Kudos! Lets be real, no one in Australia cares about breakdance, or where their money is sent or we would see more spent on infrastructure, less on supporting the US wars.
She scammed Aussies for a trip to Paris. Shame on her
@@Dim-yz6wk The whole thing is a scam, lol.
Where are you getting the information regarding tax dollars? Everywhere else it says it was paid for by the committee and not a bit of tax dollars were spent on her trip or her husband.
Ben Hart, big ups and blessings from Johnbronski ( Toronto). As a 59 yr old original B Boy ( DJ) props to you and everyone like you finding Hip Hop Culture late in life.
Your analysis here is perfect and on point. No arguments from me.
As a savy Gen Xer, I'm glad you finished with the rebuke of western "Academic Standards."
You're not lying.
Who would win?
- a self-proclaimed professional breakdancer repping Australia for the olympics
-a 65 y/o man breakdancing as a passion.
Given how the 65 yo man is old and can't do the high impact move, from what we have seen in the video, I would say it is about equal.
But the old man do not have the delusion of being a olympic athlete nor of being the top in the country and to represent the country.
Obviously the old man.
Though really...I feel like _I_ could do better, and I have bad knees, I'm overweight (losing it, though), and a bunch of other health issues. Oh, _and_ I'm _older_ than her.
I am disgusted at Rachel. Just absolutely disgusted by her self promoting her "victimhood".
Why are you disgusted by her 😂 Why are you blaming the athlete. It should be the organizations and qualifiers and judges that let her through. She just competed. You're just another person with no accountability blaming it on someone who didnt do anything wrong except make a fool of themselves. That's the olympics committees fault in her country.
There's absolutely no way Rachel was better than that G-Clef girl. G-Clef was phenomenal, both in rhythm, style, and execution. I can't wrap my brain on how Raygun beat everyone here in the qualifier. I understand those were all random judges but something stinks. I can't prove any rigging took place but my goodness, she was the actual worst one at the qualifiers.
People can try to defend her and say she won fair and square at the qualifiers but you can't deny her at the Olympics. Her not scoring a single point tells me something may have been up. How does the worst break-dancer there, reach the Olympics, apparently doing so legitimately?
Like that young break-dancer said, her egregious performance is basically insulting to break-dancers.
Anything but an athlete @@obryn
@@obryn She's a university professor who's emphasis is on break dancing. If she can teach it she should know it. If she knows it, she knows she sucks. Knows she is not an Olympian. If she doesn't know she is a fraud in both her academic life and her dancing life.
@@Allen204 Not only is she an athlete but an olympian. 😂 Did she represent the best of the best, no. Does she look like an amateur, yes; but an athlete and olympian nonetheless.
Takeaways:
(1) Molly was robbed, but it was petty theft.
(2) Rachael is now the most famous Australian breaker since Breaker Morant, who was also a thief. At least Rachael hasn't murdered anyone (yet).
(3) Perhaps we don't actually need perfect gender "equality".
(4) Rachael understands that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Yes, petty theft because Molly not that much better.
Rachael needs to do a better job of capitalizing on this opportunity.
She's hiding. She should be on every TV show just explaining what happened and saying Breaking is just not a big thing in Australia. She's trying to get people into it.
Deflect, gaslight, and deny all responsibility. How typical
its a theme in society and in particular entertainment industries. The Acolyte the starwars tv series had similar issues although these centered around gender. The show bombed and people who said so were accused of attacking the gender of the producer and the gender of those in the show. Same story there. The show was terrible and had nothing to do with the gender of anyone. Her selection as the 'top' female breakdancer from Australia raises some questions. Who were the judges that backed her and allowed her qualification for the Olympic games?
@@mrnixon2287 The Acolyte turned out to be one of the best Star Wars series. Their promotional campaign was atrocious, but the series itself was pretty good. If I was forced to pick three Star Wars series they would be: Andor, Mandalorian season 1 and The Acolyte. In that order.
@@jal051 you must love slop then.
@@yondaimesin I don't even know what slop is.
Take a better look at your plate, chances are its full of slop.
I think her problem is that she confused interpretive dance for break dancing...
I think her problem is that she's a really crappy breakdancer.
Didn't she write her PHD thesis on breakdancing?
Surely she has the ability to understand the distinction between interpretive dance & breakdancing.
Totally! Its absolutely interpretative dance
Tbh I think she wanted to make a splash and wanted to do some that would be remembered and match the male level but it just didn't look good it was unique but not good
Ngl I hate her for this but I slightly get it a bit now
Obviously she misinterpreted the meaning of breakdancing.
😂 yeah
Your analysis is awesome. Thanks
9:55 The petition has now been removed for "violating community guidelines." I wonder who's trying to protect the racket.
The removal proves Australia has lost its right to freedom of speech
The petition was full of mis-information. That is why it got removed.
@@sydtopia1 like what?
@@squ34ky Like how the selection was conducted. Here is the information that is correct, not the mis-information from the petition.
The Oceania Olympic selection event (The QMS 2023 WDSF Oceania Breaking Championships) in October 2023 brought together the top Breakers, both Bgirls and Bboys. A panel of 9 international adjudicators, a head judge and a chairperson who oversaw the competition, using the same judging system at the Paris Games and trained to uphold the highest standards of impartiality. These judges are all highly respected in their respective communities and in the international Breaking scene.
Ultimately, Rachael Gunn and Jeff Dunne emerged as the top performers in exactly the same process, securing their spots to represent Australia in Paris. Their selection was based solely on their performance in their battles on that day.
Contrary to circulating misinformation, Dr. Gunn's husband, Raygun's coach, was not a member of the selection panel or judging committee. This would have constituted a conflict of interest, and the Olympics hold strict standards that would never have allowed this to pass.
For transparency, the official lists of judges and officials for the Oceania Breaking Championships (OBC) are publicly available on the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) website.
@@squ34ky Gunn did not found the qualifying organization (AUSBreaking) nor was she ever involved in it's leadership and her husband was not a judge.
I'm glad you hit upon gender roles, as Raeguns entire thesis of over 400 pages was about deconstructing the whole gender norms in breaking, and look what it got us.... Stay in your lane Ms. Gun, literally.
My guess is there’s been no real politics in the sport until she trolled the Olympics
This is probably the final hidden chapter of her thesis - to bring gender politics into the Olympics
Dude!
I loved your breakdancing. It was awesome.
Much love from Philadelphia.
This woman is the Dunning-Kruger effect in human form.
She has Phd in cultural studies I think which explains everything
I looked it up on RUclips and this is definitely Raygun...or raydone 😂
She's the William Hung of breakdancing.
that self-satisfied smirk reminds me of Jacinta Ardern...like shes done a really good job
I don't agree, she admitted that she KNEW she wasn't as good as other competitors, so goes and 'has fun' DISGRACEFUL 😢
Another example of privilege and a lack of awareness.
WHITE privilege. Call it what it is
Nah but girls have it so hard these days 😂😂😂
We 🦘🦘🦘 kangaroo comunity please don't make a mockery dance about us...is very disrespectfull we gonna sue u raygun..🖕🖕
What was an example of privilege?
Highly ironic 😄
Dude, you are AMAZING! I'm 56 and my breaking moves include falling down my stairs, flailing trying to grab something to stop myself and breaking a couple fingers!!
She now has VICTIM status. She is untouchable in Aus, will receive financial benefits, will take paid time off UNI for stress, will parlay this into a career as a feminist whiner. Australia is fkd now.
As an Aussie, it's sad but true.
Our Prime Minister supports her, he stands with her 😢😢😢 we are indeed F.uk 🇦🇺
Well said.
So true & it’s actually happening ALREADY!🤯
It's a normal thing here and it's disturbing along with what happened to David mcbride afew months ago opposed to Ben Smith who last i read around davids imprisonment walks freely in our society still herald as a war hero 😢
Not knowing who you are I thought you were joking about the competitive breakdancing until you played the clip. As a 56 year old I’m highly impressed! Keep up the great work. You’re awesome.
I was waiting for you to post on this!!! Thanks for your input!
Seeing you breakdancing makes my day. Honestly huge respect for still taking part in such a interesting and hard sport. Love from Germany :)
Shut up bro. Germany knows nothing about breaking only killing jews
Hes really good!!
One of the worst parts that rarely gets talked about is she did a "yawn" during the other competitors turn to dance. She probably saw it in a movie and read about it how there can be taunting in a street dance off, etc. She literally is just trying to perform and act that she thinks is how it's done. The Olympics is a completely different environment and respect for the other competitors and athletes should be respected and her yawn was disgusting.
That was the #1 thing that bothered me about her, too!!! If you watch in some of the other sets, the other breakers were very friendly and respectful to each other, and yet her having the audacity to act like that, when we know, she knew she wasn't all that... 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I saw that too.
She was so disconnected from the vibe and the culture.
She was totally off with that yawn.
@@Sugas_Girr Yeah, especially Danny Dan scratching the balls hahaha
exactly! such a poser action! so cringey when you can't even back up your affected "boredom" with actual exciting moves. plus hypocritical: how is she going to accuse anything of being "patriarchal" and then engage in bravado on a global stage devoted to good sportsmanship?!? wildly and tragically self-unaware
@@SouthFloridaThrifter I would bet that in her doctoral thesis there's a section in there on how during a dance off, the one not dancing will make faces, wag their finger and other dismissive actions to show that the one dancing isn't "all that".
Even when you watch some of her other competitions, when she finishes her "dance" she acts like she's so intense and almost a mad vibe that someone would ever try to top that. She's playing a character she thinks is an authentic way to be...
Excellent coverage of this subject. The best I've seen so far. Thank you.
Thank you. Trying to be objective.
Raygun's dance reminds me how my daughter act in the shop when we're not buying what she wants 😂😂😂
She was one of our dei hires. She did a study on how toxic males kept her out of breakdancing, so our dei society sent her to show all those toxic men she is great.
I think the men were avoiding the toxic dancing
Those 'toxic ' males were right
How's she a dei hire she's a white woman what's unique about that
… and proofed that it would have been the right choice to keep her out of breakdancing to save face for Australia. Oh well. Our foreign minister turns 360 degrees and beliefs to face in another direction. She wants to save countries hundreds(!) thousands of kilometres away - yeah, nobody got this… and she beliefs in bacon of lights. BACON! 😂 I am not kidding, she is the worst shit show ever. So we know what woke second hand embarrassment can do to a country. My condolences.
Tic tacs. 😂😂😂
Ben. I want to state how epic it is that you're ALSO qualified to discuss THIS. 😅😅😅. (In addition to everything else you are qualified to discuss)
7:33 that’s another point. You said the pro break dancers spend 10 hours a day on their craft. She said in an interview that she dedicated 3 to 4 hours a day to prepare for this. We all know that any Olympic discipline requires at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
I suspect she exaggerated her "investments "...
@@sariputraa yeah my local gym coach is way fitter than gunn. 50 yo female and full of spuds. Raygun has never done anything athletic in her life.
Her performance shows the results of her training…
There are old Olympians that claim they were beaten by their parents if they didn't train enough. Clearly, she wasn't beaten.
Welp with her partner 'coaching' her - have you seen him dance? It's on YT somewhere. He is - unbelievably perhaps - even more crap than she is. And 3-4 hours my arse. 3-4 minutes once every second week is more like it.
As an Aussie, so embarrassed by the obvious corruption and mocking disrespect from this selfish woman and all involved with her selection! I hope this ends up in Court. I want to see her get more than '5 minutes of fame' to uncover this horrendous abuse upon the Breakers community.
I can't believe how ridiculous the Australian Olympic committee looks! The Olympics are for the best of the best in the world! She did her best but unfortunately it wasn't great. The Aussie Olympic committee is at fault here! Not hers. Our athletes are top notch what happened?
@@ktkdnt2912 What happened? An American Ghetto dance. Why is Australia even worried? I thought she trolled awesomely.
Those breakers train for hours and hours for years , how did she not know how foolish she looked ?
@@AndrewFishmanand your point is what ?
@@johnhernandez7599 I think that is obvious. What an epic troll. Who else is being talked about? I can name only one Olympian. Rachel Gun. Well played.
I think this is the best, most balanced summary of the whole Raygun debarkle I’ve seen, and I’ve learnt a lot too. Great video. 🤩
This is the result of handing out participation trophies to children.
100%
What is the "participation trophy" in this scenario? She got zero points and won nothing.
@@mr_knowitallI guess the joke was that handing out participation trophies makes the simpler specimens to imagine they're actually great and think they could compete in Olympics. To the question of how the hell did she qualify, I have no answer.
Word is she did it for a free trip to Paris....
And the preplanned stay and trip through Europe for the next couple of weeks, as she proudly told the world in her interview 🙄
Plus her husband got pais 80K$ to "coach"
Now, she is going to line up paid TV interviews across Europe, United Kingdom, America.
That makes sense, and it explains why she's now touring Europe. She did it for a free vacation
the Olympics have become a monetized freak show - if she did go for the free trip to Paris GIVE HER A GOLD MEDAL !
Also you cannot compare men break dancing and women break dancing. It’s a world of difference
Given this is my first time watching any females breakdancing, even the good ones in this videos show that the women’s version should be named as a completely different dance form. It is desperately non- dynamic when the women try it. Just sayin’. If the women came from an acrobatics and gymnastics background and could work with a sprung floor, it might be better.
100%. Like all sports, it's important to recognise the difference between male and female biological strength and athleticism. You can't expect the same level and type of performance from both genders
@@virginiacharlotte7007 B-girl Scar is a professional dancer at sporting matches and could have been trained to improve her breaking (she is more of an acrobat). She went to a preliminary comp in Melbourne but Raygun was also successful there. Why would you keep bothering when Raygun is always comes out on top? There are heaps of videos online and Raygun always wins because of her passion and (I believe) coach's influence.
I see that now. The girls are pretty good but lack the strength to do the classic power moves most people associate with breaking
"Here's my Windmill, at the age of 60. " politely devastating. 😂
My windmill is not good either. But ok for age 60.
@@benhartcommentaries More than OK amigo 😁👍🏾. Most 60 year olds would graham cracker a hip doing that.
@@benhartcommentariesyour upper body strength is impressive sir. I salute you.
You are the perfect most reliable person to bring us this story thanks!!!
Put simply, if you are a senior member of a "governing body" you should not be able to compete in the Olympics. A governiing body's role is to promote the sport and help improve those with talent to get them to Olympic level. If you or your organisation have any say in who qualifies and who doesnt, you need to be objective. We've all seen those competitions with rules to the effect that "Employees and their immediate familes are unable to enter". She manipulated the system to get herself a spot, and embarrassed a nation while doing it. As someone who "was there" in the 80's, Break Dancing isnt about "doing the worm" on the floor for 5 minutes. It started as a substitute for street fighting. Its all about "the burn" by showing off better moves than your opponent, and "dissing" them along the way (in a creative and fun way). I doubt she ever realised that basic concept of what it is all about. It seems like her understanding of it is "a form of interpretive dance". She failed! I lost all interest in "Paris 2024" after the Opening Ceremony. This is just another of many examples showing that the 2024 Olympic organisers (including the IOC) have completely forgotten what the Olympics are all about.
She’s a lefty academic larping as a breakdancer. If you read her 2023 article (Global Hip Hop Studies, 4(1), 39-56) she’s worried that the olympics will make breakdancing more popular and subject to “transnational commercial organizations and institutional governing bodies” so she did her best to make it unpopular.
👀🤯 Does she give any praise to break dancing roots ? Black/afro/latino oppression ?
@@koejoe If you were the break dancing roots, would you actually want her praise? If I were a person important to break dancing's roots, and she mentioned me as one of her inspirations, I'd write her a polite letter thanking her and asking her to please never say that in an interview again.
How dare she decide what is good for the community of breakdance ,Breakdancing can offer those who do it a chance to be a part of something and by making it mainstream or even putting in the main areas is not for her to decide .,we have so many indigenous youth who do this and would really benefit from it going mainstream .Talk about white privilege !!!!!!!
@@brandonjames412 I meant more in her thesis and her achedemics. A PhD in breaking one would hope she acknowledges history. But I have a feeling she doesn’t at all.
Hey she's not left she delusional , being left doesn't mean being an idiot. Jesus was left
As an Australian I can tell you that most of us are pissed at this. So many good break dancers ignored etc.
yes, Holy Molly should have been sent. I watched a video (on YT) of a battle between Molly Chapman and Rachel Gunn. Molly was, by far, much better than Rachel (although in that video she did do more breakdancing moves than she did at the Olympics) but lost to Rachel. She should have won.
ruclips.net/video/fUozjgMNMN8/видео.htmlsi=QHW84SP8WOIn4dnl
Don't forget "Eddie the Eagle Edwards", a British ski jumper in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
He really wasn't that bad though. He made it off the jump.
The fact that we have to try to logically analyze this is depressing. I saw a few clips of her at the Olympics and turned away in cringe and shame. There is nothing to discuss, this is a horrible human being and she screwed up things for many people that worked much harder than she did (if she really worked at all).
She not a terrible human, settle the f down. Kinda stupid and selfish, but theres way worse out there fella.
Remember Eddie, the Eagle? I loved this guy, hell, _everyone_ loved his guy. Not because he was so good at ski jumping, because he wasn't, but because everyone knew and felt that he _loved_ this sport. He poured his heart into this. In a country with _zero_ ski jumping tradition, with no support he gave his everything for the sport he loved. _He_ did never mock his sport or his nation or the Olympis, unlike this Raygun person.
And now excuse me, for some reason I feel like watching Cool Runnings.
Eddy never took another person's spot.
I watched the movie about Eddie the Eagle… now I want to watch some real footage. Thanks for reminding me about him.
dude's a paid opposition. all this Raygun thing was a ruse so the west has more control on the scene while making it out as a low tier competetion. Nc try, bud.
Jamaicans hate that movie 😂😂😂
Let us not forget, Eddie the Eagle actually held the British Record for ski jumping/. He might not have been good, but he was the best on offer.
The fact that she thinks she's real B Girl is all you need to know ! She made a mockery of Breaking and the real issue is no one is talking about the winners !!!
Personal I’ve always thought it’s meant to be rythmic acrobatics and gymnastics, not liberal arts degree plus flopping around. So she’s irreversibly ruined its chances for a sequel
This is literally deliberate. I've been watching these social planers since the late 90s. They crippled the tech industry around 2007ish.. alot of folks running the back bone networks and such started to get pushed out... then virtualization & smart phones hit.. it was like a perfect storm. And then look how much back Leah in the industry with windows 10.. hell just the lack of the ALT key-menu screwed over my productivity - turning 6 seconds of work into 30+ or minuets while I hunt for wherever they put the command
What Rachel and her husband do is closer to interpretive dance or performance art. They definitely belong locked up in the insane asylum of academia.
The meanness of the response may have ruined a sequel. Nobody got mad at the Jamaican bobsled team.
They did the same thing with Hip Hop. In the 80’s and 90’s you had performers like De La Soul, Del, A Tribe Called Quest and so on. You had the NWA’s however that was a genre of the same art form. When a certain demographic for a hold of it all of a sudden everyone became a “G” and that’s ALL THEY ALLOWED to be played. It was intentional. This is the same thing. This was done on purpose in my opinion.
The fact that breaking isn’t going to LA has nothing to do with Ray Gunn (as awful as she was) it wasn’t listed to be an event before the Paris games
As an Australian, I can confirm Australia is ten times more broken than any country in the world when it comes to out of control feminists and wokism. Its just embarrassing. All she had to do was say she was a woman and instantly they let her compete.
As an Asian, I researched European history a lot, and, I wonder, wtf happened to you guys? You used to be WAY stronger than this. What on Earth happened to you guys? Now you're so self-hating and whiny and entitled. Your ancestors would be rolling in their graves
When Britain classifies misogyny as terrorism you'll count yourselves lucky
Canada may be worse or at least your strongest competitor.
I lived there in Melbourne for a year from America. I had an awesome time and learned a lot but yes man women over there are not right in the head. I am glad Raygun is showing the world how women fail themselves when everyone gets a trophy for participation.
USA not far behind. It’s a clown world. What we know as false, they tell us it’s real.
Government Trolling Medals:
Australia: Gold (Fake Dancer)
Turkey: Silver (Sent men to box woke females)
Taiwan: Bronze (Sent men to box woke females), GENIUS!!!
Honesty isn’t hateful just because you don’t like it or agree with it. And Ray Gun was beyond bad
I commented on other channels that this was terrible and my comments were immediately deleted by RUclips for "Hate Speech".
Well, you shouldn't spread hate then.
@@petethundabox5067 you’re gay
Haven’t read the comment but their is a big difference between having an objective opinion based on the reality of how bad she was and the story of how she got there as opposed to hate , there is a reason why everyone is laughing , doesn’t mean they hate her
Did they mute ya? They usually mute me for 24hrs because I'll call a baby killer a pos in a crime video. RUclips is a joke.
@@mattb6646yes got the mute punishment a few times 😌 notti corner
A middle
Aged lecturer is Aussies best B girl lol
@@5150show wonder if she still has the lecturing job after that performance...do they have PHDs in blundering stupidity 🤔?
I truly think the Australian government should open a public inquiry into this debacle........ it's that serious. 😊😢
I don’t want her to get away with disrespecting the breakers that did the work and had the talent to be great. Her lame, “crying in a locked room because the boys are mean to me” story doesn’t explain her delusional opinion of herself. If she loves breaking culture so much, why does she have no discernment about what is good or not? It seems like she sucks as a break dancer, sucks as a professor/authority figure on the subject and most of all she sucks as a human being. Delusional, bragging obnoxiously in her interview about her nonexistent musicality, etc.
The Australian government is led by a s0cıalıst prime minister raised by a single mother. Taxpayers have been his father figure and provider throughout his life. He has selected and surrounded himself with w0ke females and s1mps who hate Whıte Western people.
A public inquiry is not going to happen.
They seems to be defending her
@@ryanvacation7319
Only the mainstream media and sports people who have carved a career in scamming the taxpayer. Everyone else is laughing at Dances with Wombats.
They had a petition for just that removed..
So many twists and turns in this video. Your response to this whole situation was more nuanced and intelligent than any other I've seen on the subject, yet it doesn't surprise me, given the quality of content you've put out online up until this point. Thank you.
Thank you!
It's a shame for poor Rachel that narcissism isn't an Olympic sport. She'd definitely bring home the gold in that one.
Did she have a seizure while trying to pull this off? Who do I go to get that image out of my head? I need to unsee this.
You do it better
The problem here is her entitlement and pride. At 60 years old and with less time you’re way better at breaking than Rachel. Rachel doesn’t get better because she doesn’t think she has to
"She doesn't get better because she doesn't think she has to".
That makes her the Corey Feldman of breakdancing.
As an Australian very embarrassed by this. Absolutely lost for words
As a former breakdancer and an Australian, I'm embarrassed as hell..... she should apologise.
I was under the Impression she had been breakdancing for at least 16 years considering one of the defences Australia’s Olympic team chief Anna Meares used was “In 2008, she was locked in a room crying being involved in a male dominated sport as the only woman, and it took great courage for her to continue on and fight for her opportunity to participate in a sport that she loved.”
Interesting point. I have been involved in lots of male dominated activities and have never felt excluded
Lol I heard that and was like Wtf is going on in Australia?? She is crying in a room over males existing? What sport was it that she was the only woman? Football? They have women teams for everything but that in the US and probably hockey? Regardless that is super "woke" to be crying over being the girl on an all boys team.
Nobody: "Oy, what would a non-breakdance breakdance look like, mate?"
Raygun: "Hold me Coopers!"
raygun’s dance was like me writhing in pain in the ER while having a severe case of acid reflux a couple of days ago
Always check the eyes. There's something about the eyes. A glimmer, a certain shine, a deep seated neurosis, you will have no problem imagining the person with an axe in their hands, circling you, jabbing you, it's terrifying.
Omg…thanks I needed a good laugh you win the comment of the day award in my book ! 👍👍👍👍👍
Don't know what that has 2 do w breaking
BUT,TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN
My thoughts exactly. This psychopath was raised by a freemason father and eastern star mother.
I KNEW that you'd weigh in on this, and I am so happy that you did. The really sad thing is that we never ONCE saw any of the great performances....NOT ONE.
The fact that she's qualified to teach just proves how messed up the world is today.
well, where ever she is teaching is messed up. Students should be refunded if the endured her course.
First time online huh? you're on youtube and you're just realizing all this 🤣
@@obryn rude
@@jackharrison7613 you say I'm rude but here you are saying wherever she teaches is messed up. idk about you but Australia isn't really a place to find female breakdancers, let alone one that probably teaches in it. Name another female break dance professor in Australia. lol She might be bad but probably because there isn't many options where shes at. Yet I'm the rude one for calling out people that really dont grasp the whole situation. 😂 Cry some more
@@obryn why are you so snarky?
The conflict of interest is the problem. It stinks of corruption even if it was fair.
The judges were there at the invitation of Rachael. You've got to look into the impartiality of the judges themselves
Exactly. Hand picked her besties 😢😢😢
You move well, good on you! As an Australian, I want to apologise for that embarrassing display; it overshadowed all of our athletes who worked so hard to get to the Olympics and win a medal.
As a Strayan, I don't appreciate the censorship and gaslighting occurring I Australia regarding Rayguns duds performance.
You know what the saying ‘Doing a Bradbury’ means, well, I have trying to think what ‘Doing a Ray Gunn’ might mean. Any ideas?
Sir, I really appreciate your coverage of this event. You helped me, a completely uneducated viewer, understand and respect your sport/art/passion much better. Thank you for the help to unpeel the layers of complexity here.
Thank yu!
It had to be a rigged tryout. There is no way that dancing was Olympic quality. She should be ashamed of herself passing it as hate. Its not hate its criticism of a lousy routine.
It has to be rigged there's no other logical explanation for what's occurred.
I heard they notified too late so many dancers didn't know the qualifiers were even happening. And also excluded New Zealand for some reason
Clearly Molly was better than Rachel even if neither of them were even close to what the guys could do.
Nice insight. I like that you went the extra mile and actually included the qualification rounds in your video and analysis. Well done!
She single handedly set Australia back to the days of Americans thinking we're just Crocodile Dundee
Full analysis: She belongs to the chattering leftist academic class, she has a PhD in Breaking intersectional studies, and she assumed that this would qualify her for the Olympics.
Because whoever set the rules for qualifications for the Olympics allowed that to happen. Why did someone have to belong to a dance studio ,for instance.? For a sport that started on the streets?
It’s always the left, right? 😂😂😂 tic tacs!
@@wallhagens2001 Yes so it seems. The bourgeois academic left is totally disconnected from any reality outside their bubble. The symptoms are legio.
She’s a disgrace!
What exactly makes her "left". Your right wing agenda of associating every crazy idea with your political opposition?
The video is so interesting and easy to understand. I watched it for an hour without realizing it. Thank you Beni-Hana!
Thank you. I try to break it down so those who know zero about this get it.
"She got in on an flaw in a poorly designed qualifying process" But um.... Yeah, SHE created part of that Qualifying process so....
So excited to wake up on a Sunday morning and see this video up!! Thanks for the thorough analysis l, loved it!!
Thank you!
Honestly Mr. Hart, I've enjoyed just listening to you talk; whether it's your own personal affairs, fields you have expertise in, or just regular stuff.
Thank you!
Thank you for a properly researched video on this without bullshite or politics, i knew not to trust the journalists writing again about something that they know nothing about without even 5 mins of research on their part, journalists really have sunk so low on standards
Yep, amazing that these "news" rags are able to tell us all "the facts" within a day, almost like they did 0 research and just want us to shut up.
Yeah but that swimmer was the best in his country...no way she's the best in Australia
Plus he actually did the event, Raygun did not break dance
im reading truths here
I mean he shows the qualifying competition and her competition was just as bad imo 😂
@@clutchboi4038 A lot of people have alleged that it was rigged so that a lot of more worthy people were not made aware of the qualification event, further narrowing the selection pool.
While her performance lacked, the information provided by that petition mentioned in this video has been proven to be entirely false and as a consequence that petition has now been removed.
So it was possible that if the husband did not get injured, that it's him and her in the Olympics. 😂 It would have been much more hilarious. 😂
I only saw the small clip of her husband… and as someone who has never breaked before I am very confident that I could learn that in a day.😂
@@ramigilneas9274most of us could I guess - and I am a 47 year old chronically ill stay at home mom. BUT I would NEVER dare to embarrass me and my country in that way. There is dignity and then there is Rachel 🥴
No. The Australia male representative is actually good. It's not like the case with her competitors who were all weak.
It was probably their dream to compete together in the Olympics. Just goes to show how delusional they both are. He also thinks he can keep up with the world top breakers!?
Unbelievable....
@@jal051That just shows how crazy they both are!? She was lucky because it just happened that way, but how on earth did he think he could prevail against the male breakers when the quality seems to be better than the females!?
You're wrong about it not being her fault and here's why... you admitted that if she performed like she did in the qualifiers she would have lost but nobody would have noticed. But she made a conscious decision to add moves and elements into breaking that aren't part of breaking. In fact they're not even dance moves at all. She chose that routine, and that's the reason she's receiving all the backlash. Nobody expects female Breakers to be world-class. But what she did was a mockery.
Is not a style, not creative, not unique. Is a naive display of her perception of it.
This is a lesson for the entire world, and perhaps that’s her only contribution.
I boycotted this Olympics, so I didn't get a chance to see much of her non-"routine."
Ditto
Me too.
Why?
Yes also
Geography has a lot to do with why Rachael was able to qualify. There are far better break dancers but Australia is a small country spread out over a large geographic area, and break dancing is a dance/sport where the best dancers are often from economically humble backgrounds that would preclude them from traveling. While she didn't cheat, the governing body that chose Rachael didn't do much if anything to reach out to or support better performers who might not even know breaking was to be in the Olympics. The way the "sport" structured its qualifying events self-selected amateurs who had the means to compete. Rachael, like a lot of academics, had some blinders on with respect to her own privilege despite writing an entire dissertation about other people's privilege. And I fully get that in previous years, plucky amateurs have captured the hearts of people rather than provoked rage. This might have been a case of people who would normally scoff at accusations of "cultural appropriation" recognizing that break-dancing elites are often not 35-year-old white academics. In any case, the backlash against Rachael did get a bit out of control but I hope the Olympics looks a little harder at the way qualifiers are set up to prevent this in the future.
Absolutely agree, I've been saying this for a while now
Great comment.
Her lack of morals has to do with it, it's either that or she is totally delusional and she believes that she can actually break dance.
White privilege at it's finest
What you're describing is why DEI exists. It's about outreach to communities that might not be able to showcase their talents as readily as more affluent talents. It's often mischaracterized as "preferential treatment" for those lesser known talents, when we can now see that sometimes , without DEI, the more affluent people rewarded are essentially self-preferred.
I've been waiting for your reaction for so long!
I clicked on this so fast! I was waiting for you to cover it, have a nice weekend Ben! :)