Paris Olympics 2024

Nath wrote:oh, so the story now is that the qualification process is a bit of a mess AND her husband was on the judging panel...

Cheers Nath.

Anywho, this "sport" is gawn for LA 2028.

So "Doing a Bradbury" went into Aus folklore to mean hanging in and coming through to win from nowhere.

I guess "Doing a Raygun" will go down as meaning becoming famous for being amusingly (nay, embarrassingly) shithouse.

She’s a teacher isn’t she? Does she have to go back to take classes?

Her husband, if it’s true that he facilitated her humiliation on the world stage, must be a shit. I heard from Zimmy on the issue, “taking the positives” a la Michael Vaughan … breaking will never be in the Olympics again and she has single-handedly made it so uncool that a generation of kids will avoid it like the proverbial … and that has to be a good thing.

I was at the shops yesterday and there was a couple sitting in the food court

Th bloke was chair dancing and girl was giggling happily at his moves

The kangaroo and the sprinkler were definitely involved

....

We know more about Rachell Gunn than we do about most of our medallists

lardbucket wrote:She’s a teacher isn’t she? Does she have to go back to take classes?

Her husband, if it’s true that he facilitated her humiliation on the world stage, must be a shit. I heard from Zimmy on the issue, “taking the positives” a la Michael Vaughan … breaking will never be in the Olympics again and she has single-handedly made it so uncool that a generation of kids will avoid it like the proverbial … and that has to be a good thing.

Macquarie Uni Professor who did her thesis on Break-dancing (FFS). She met her husband 10 years ago. He's was a break dancer and now coach. He got her into the "sport" after she had much experience in "normal" dancing (jazz etc).

As Nath said, he was a judge in the poorly organised local qualification event. Fellow contestants described her as having a quirky style. One of her fellow professors bagged her in the media about being on a subsidised study tour at the Olympics.  

I guess she's now our Eddie the Eagle or Eric the Eel.

lardbucket wrote:Almost over.

New legends born. Hot on the heels of Eddie the Eagle and Eric the Eel we now have Rae the Writhing Roach.

Rach the Roach?

Sorry L. I missed your previous Eddie and Eric references.

lardbucket wrote:She’s a teacher isn’t she? Does she have to go back to take classes?

Her husband, if it’s true that he facilitated her humiliation on the world stage, must be a shit. I heard from Zimmy on the issue, “taking the positives” a la Michael Vaughan … breaking will never be in the Olympics again and she has single-handedly made it so uncool that a generation of kids will avoid it like the proverbial … and that has to be a good thing.

probably, after she has milked the 15 seconds of fame for all it is worth.

The Para version starts on Aug 28. I assume that's why Fromberg has left this rikkied.

Aus currently 6th in Para medal count with 6-6-10.

Publicity has been limited.

Aus currently 9th with 11-12-18.

Meanwhile, China have wheeled out every enhanced disabled person they could find and lead the medal count 62-46-27, way ahead of GB in 2nd with 33-25-16. USA in a lowly 3rd.

Aus ended up 9th in the tally, matching our 18 Gold in the Olympics. 18-17-28 was the final tally.