This is break dancing
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Not corrupt enough?
my million dollar idea:
tug of war at the olympics, but hereās the rules:
can only enter athletes already there for other sports
pack weight limits, so you canāt just stack it with chungi
every country enters
divisions are mixed 10s, mixed 4s, solo men, solo women. division depends on your total olympic team size (30+ ā 10s; 7-29 ->, 4s; 6 or less ā solo)
one venue, afternoon before closing ceremony, all other sports are finished
single elimination bracket, one-and-done winner moves on
should all be a bit of a silly buggers vibe. all the athletes in a āhey isnāt sport greatā mood. no ones actually trained, just stepping in and going for it.
how good would it be. a dream bracket run by morocco or chile knocking off canada in the round of 16. usas combo of gynmasts and wrestlers up against brazils all-footballers team. 10,000 athletes each picking a side and getting around bhutan v malawi in the womens solo final.
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Menās marathon about to start. Kipchoge going for his third gold in a row.
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How did she get selected? Iāve seen far better by kids in the streets.
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I donāt have any idea about that.
She set up a Federation of sorts
Following Tracey Holmes on twitter, there are suggestions that the Algerian boxer controversy has been set up by Russia. The last month, when Russia was UNSC President , it initiated a discussion claiming that the UN was being too woke with its focus on LBQTI rights. Russia is anti LBQTI.
Also allegedly it controls the IBA, at odds with the IOC and considered corrupt. As yet, boxing is not on the list for the next Olympics, with the IOC refusing to recognise the International Federation status of the IBA.
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āWe argue that breakingās institutionalization via the Olympics will place breaking more firmly within this sporting nationās hegemonic settler-colonial structures that rely upon racialized and gendered hierarchies. As such, in this article we discuss and examine how the Olympics impacts ongoing local, social and cultural productions and expressions of hip hop, and the distinct possibilities of breaking that enable its participants to āshow and proveā outside standardized, institutionalized rubricsā
She won the Oceania champs to gain selection at the Olympics so she is obviously the best we have in the region unfortunately
i donāt like counter-arguing academic articles on the abstract alone, but i feel as though fitting a style of freeform expression into a standardised and institutionalised rubric, such as a competition at the summer olympic games, kinda defeats the point being made
might give that a read on the work clock next week
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Red Bull has organised World Breaking Champs to be held in Brazil in December. It has set up a few comps in Australia for the selection
Surely not. That performance was laughable
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Faniel, the italian, making a break at the 11km mark. Hot and humid conditions coupled with a tough course, letās see how this works out for him. Bold move.
At the 14.5 km mark now.
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Maybe all the good breakdancers accepted an icy cold can of Coke from the Triple M Black Thunders and lost their amateur status?
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ok, so i read the publication, and i have a new theory
raygun learned in her consultation with the community that breakings inclusion in the olympics will have more negative impact than positive, and so sacrificed her own dignity in order to sabotage it.
to do this effectively, she had to commit what is a cardinal sin among young people - make it cringey
for that, i salute her
(caveat: i have never met her, this is a shtpost that i have entirely made up. that said, i will stand by this theory until i die)
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Halfway point and the pack has caught up to the Italian. Kipchoge struggling and looks injured, doubt there will be a threepeat. The Ethiopian, Tola, looking strong out the front. Tough hill climb has found out a few.
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The breakdancing reminds me of something out of Kath and Kim
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about 5 minutes ago i read on twitter that gordan bray was commentating it on 3aw and i have only just regained enough composure to write this post
iāve also created a new narrative thread to my above theory: that silly salmon move she did is regarded by dedicated breakers as technically quite difficult to pull off but is functionally useless, so they immediate know what sheās doing. like if a footy team tanked a game by just kicking torps all the time
-edit- iāve never read a screenplay, much less written one, but maybe i should give it a shot
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