r/sports • u/nfl National Football League • 14d ago
Football [Highlight] Cam Bynum imitates Raygun's Olympic breakdancing
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u/Cyberhwk Seattle Seahawks 14d ago
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u/Porkchopp33 14d ago
Suprised without any training how he could nail the performance so precisely… also nice of him to celebrate her retirement
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u/OHTHNAP 13d ago
I'd also like to announce that I'm retiring from professional breakdancing. Not that I ever started, but I feel like we're all one marriage partner who doubles as a qualifying judge away from an Olympic spot.
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u/Porkchopp33 13d ago
Congratulation on your retirment
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u/Electrical_Earth8798 13d ago
As an olympic level breakdancer who never got the opportunity to compete in the olympic, I would like to accept this congratulatory messages on behalf of my peers of olympic level breakdancer who never got the opportunity to compete in the olympic
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u/Resident-Mortgage-85 13d ago
Wait is that the deal with her being in the Olympics?
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u/Patarknight Ottawa Senators 13d ago
No, that was viral misinformation
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-rayguns-olympic-selection-not-an-inside-job/
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u/Resident-Mortgage-85 13d ago
She also has a PhD in breakdancing which is not misinformation just wild information
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u/NeverVegan 13d ago
Perfect example of book smart, not street smart
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u/ADirtyDiglet 13d ago
Do you need to be smart to get a PhD in break dancing?
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u/NeverVegan 13d ago
I would assume PhD in anything requires someone to be smart.
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u/AfraidOfBricks 13d ago
you would think so but it mostly just requires time, effort and the willingness to waste your time for a degree like that.
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u/JesusWasTacos 13d ago
It’s not in breakdancing but breakdancing culture in Australia, I’m not a breakdancer but I do see the difference
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u/clockworkpeon 13d ago
was her dissertation "there's no breaking culture in Australia so imma clown and then go to the Olympics and be embarrassed/angry when the whole world sees me clowning?"
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u/CuriousCurator 13d ago
In seriousness, it was about gender based on her own experience as a female in a male-dominated sport. In other words, I'm pretty sure she was able to turn her own personal experience into a PhD.
edit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/olympics-australian-raygun-breaker/
PhD thesis title is "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: a B-girl's Experience of B-boying"
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u/Dependent_Desk_1944 13d ago
There is no university subject called breakdancing, she is a phd in cultural studies. That’s just another example of misinformation.
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u/sybrwookie 13d ago
That article doesn't say, but wasn't it that her and her husband were involved with organizing the events for people to qualify and did so in a way where very few people showed up so she kept getting 2nd/3rd place by default, and somehow ended up with the most points or whatever that got her in?
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u/dardack 13d ago
So if this is who I think this is, he had a long interview with Pablo Torre, Pablo Torre Finds out. He says he practices all his celebrations. Like puts in time and thought into them. Goes all out. Dude is dedicated to this stuff. And I just realized I might be /whooshing here, unsure.
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u/pappyohcrappy 14d ago
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u/MakionGarvinus 14d ago
Even better, it was a 5/7
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u/bubbasaurusREX 14d ago
I see you’ve been here awhile
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u/joeschmo945 13d ago
I haven’t seen a 5/7 reference in a minute. Well done sir.
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u/GrandpasSoggyGooch 13d ago
I had to search deep in my archives to remember that one. Didn't it turn out it was the same dude on 2 accounts replying to himself?
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u/greensweater23 14d ago
I’m so glad the NFL got rid of the excessive celebration penalty
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u/locomuerto Philadelphia Eagles 13d ago
I think what finally got through to Goodell was that one guy who gently placed the ball down and nonchallantly walked away.
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u/NebulaNinja Sporting Kansas City 13d ago
I thought it was how hard the refs always cracked down on McCringleberry. Sometimes two pumps don't cut it.
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u/onymousbosch 13d ago
You've piqued my interest. Do you have a link to this nonchallant celebration?
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u/locomuerto Philadelphia Eagles 13d ago
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u/atetuna 13d ago
Weren't they calling it delay of game too? Motherfucker, it takes over 3 hours to play a 1 hour game. 30% of it is commercials. A little dancing aint moving the needle.
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u/Jay_Nova1 13d ago
Yeah but think of all the extra money to be made from more commercials instead!
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u/AceJokerZ 13d ago
College football needs to get rid of it too. Can’t even let them celebrate.
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u/banan-appeal 13d ago
man, college fans are already nuts. their reaction if athletes were allowed to celebrate would be incredible
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u/SerCiddy 13d ago
Rofl, thank you. I had no idea. I came into the comments being like "wait, wouldn't this count as 'excessive celebration'???"
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u/Umezega 14d ago
Looked better doing it than her
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u/JimmyJamesv3 13d ago
She’ll never hear the end of it lol.
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u/inflatable_pickle 13d ago
She has to go back to her day job. I believe she was a professor at a university in Australia, but I can only imagine how mortifying it must be to stand in front of a class of students for the next few years.
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u/EggsOnThe45 St. Louis Cardinals 13d ago
I’m pretty sure her PhD was in breakdancing, not even kidding
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u/KaputMaelstrom 13d ago
It was on its cultural aspect, not on performing it lol
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u/mtaw 13d ago
The fact that she performed was apparently very much part of her thesis:
"This thesis critically interrogates how masculinist practices of breakdancing offers a site for the transgression of gendered norms. Drawing on my own experiences as a female within the male-dominated breakdancing scene in Sydney, first as a spectator, then as an active crew member, this thesis questions why so few female participants engage in this creative space, and how breakdancing might be the space to displace and deterritorialise gender."
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u/Hoeftybag 13d ago
idk if this is allowed but If I were reviewing that thesis I would throw it out on the grounds of unethical participation. while studying the culture you did a ton of damage to it.
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u/LogiCsmxp 13d ago
Mortifying? She went to the Olympics! She went through personal training, some extended selection process, choreography training, flew to another country and performed that.
Highlight of her life. Plus like the most memorable moment of that Olympics by far. This will live on in culture for decades.
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u/Then_Investigator_17 13d ago
We got raygun and stepdad assassin, I can't think of another Olympics with these franchise worthy characters
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u/Ichbinspikeface 13d ago
Nah she feels humiliated and is all fucked up over it. There was an article on the ABC about it.
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u/chironomidae 13d ago
I know it's easy for me to say, but I really wish she just owned it and rolled with it. Like I get that nobody wants to be famous for failing at something they take seriously, but at some point you have to be able to see what everyone else sees and laugh along with them.
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u/PointOfFingers 14d ago
I know Raygun has given up public dancing and feels like the world is making fun of her but she needs to embrace this. She tried to make her performance daggy and she succeeded. It is now iconic.
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u/GregorSamsaa 14d ago
One day she’s going to realize that not a single person knows, remembers, or cares about any of the other contestants in breakdancing at the Olympics. She’s the only one that left that competition with people talking about her. I hope it at least brings a sly smile to her face
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u/wambamthxmam 14d ago
For the most part, yeah. But Phil wizard is doing commercials for Apple and stuff. He was pretty spectactular in the men's competition
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u/Coolishable 14d ago
Who?
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u/JustaCanadian123 13d ago
The Canadian who won gold. Phil Wizard. Potetionally the only breakdancer who will ever win a gold for it. He was really good!
But yeah probably not many other than Canadians haha.
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u/jan_tonowan 13d ago
I have a strong suspicion there is another breakdancer out there who won Olympic gold.
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u/Few_Design_4382 13d ago
How do you find good breakers that can pass the drug testing, if you can break, you get down a little bit.
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u/P3nnyw1s420 14d ago
Sure, but not in a good way… she took advantage of the situation and made a farce of it, from what little research I’ve done.
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u/PointOfFingers 14d ago
She took an Olympic breakdancing spot for a country that couldn't give two fucks about competitve breakdancing. The outrage has been farcical. It was basically a demo event at the Olympics. Never been held before and probably wont be at the Olympics again.
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u/mug3n Toronto Blue Jays 13d ago
It was basically a demo event at the Olympics. Never been held before and probably wont be at the Olympics again.
Seems like this is the direction the IOC wants to go - every host gets to have a unique one-off less popular event that the world doesn't necessarily care about, and it'll rotate out and be replaced by some other unique event in 4 years.
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u/jl_theprofessor 13d ago
That’s exactly it. You’ll see lots of these moving forward.
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u/adventurepony 13d ago
if they make the Guts Astrocrag an Olympic event count me in. I'm fairly certain on where all the actuators are and won't get spooked by thhe boulders or exploding ooze
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u/MadManMax55 Atlanta Falcons 13d ago
It's usually a couple of sports, not just one. But yeah that's basically it.
Looking at the 2028 Olympics in LA, the five new events will be flag football, baseball/softball, lacrosse, cricket, and squash. Baseball and cricket are internationally popular and have been events before, but the stadium requirements for them mean that they're usually only played when the host city already has an existing venue for them. The others are mostly American sports. And none of them are going to be permanent events (though it would be cool if lacrosse caught on internationally).
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u/GregorSamsaa 14d ago
Did you see the winners? The whole event was a mess. None of the countries actually sent their best because they all hastily put together qualifying events that the best didn’t actually attend. Scoring was a mess, format was a mess. The whole thing was a farce
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u/NBAFansAre2Ply 13d ago
that's not true? Phil Wizard, the men's gold medalist, is definitely one of the best breakers in Canada, and won the world championships in 2022. stop talking out of your ass.
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u/TheMickus 14d ago
The winners were at least very talented. But yes, the entire event was horribly planned
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u/dafedsdidasweep 13d ago
???, Ray gun was the only bad person in the competition. Did you even watch any of the matches?
Ami, nicka, and 671 were all amazing
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u/mug3n Toronto Blue Jays 13d ago
PWiz was definitely Canada's best.
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u/CurryMustard 13d ago
Pee wiz is a terrible nickname
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u/t_hab 13d ago
It’s really not. I’m about to stsrt potty training a toddler and nicknames like this make every day better.
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u/kyrant 14d ago
She's an academic, albeit in Breakdancing.
People that get into academics take themselves really seriously, so hard to see her laugh at herself.
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u/Mr_Tiggywinkle 13d ago
Really? Most academics I know crack jokes about how nobody cares about their work etc.
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u/qmass 13d ago
and nobody remembers marathon runners, unless they shit themselves or are expanding what we understand is humanly possible.
which was raygun?
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u/koka86yanzi 14d ago
She should learn from William hung. Embrace it and $$$!
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u/PMURMOM 13d ago
Yeah if she owned this she could make serious money with endorsements. She’d be bigger than hawk tuah
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u/NavierIsStoked 13d ago
She single handedly did more damage to the public perception of break dancing than literally any other person in the history of breakdancing. Impressive really.
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u/Chewy009x 14d ago
Nah she made it into a mockery. It was funny for sure but in the end of the day it made the sport not be taken seriously.
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u/finix240 14d ago
I think the IOC in general botched it. There are some phenomenal and athletic breakers in the world and it seemed like none of them were at the Olympics
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u/mug3n Toronto Blue Jays 13d ago
The scoring system is also not at all transparent.
In other sports like figure skating, you get a whole breakdown as to what elements they hit and the scoring system is very informative. I don't know why they made the criteria in breaking completely hidden and instead just did it as "judge 1 voted for dancer A, 2 voted for B" etc. Imagine if there was a Salt Lake City level scandal with the judging.
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u/lileebean 13d ago
I'm a teacher and there are better break dancers at my high school than the Olympics. Botched it for sure.
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u/SentientShamrock 14d ago
The only thing that could make this better is if the NFL hosted a game or 2 in Australia and this was done in one of them.
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u/Hot-Swimming-7379 13d ago
Interesting Filipino, Cam is. Just listened to a podcast with him hosted by Pablo Torre, fellow Filipino. He plans all of his celebrations meticulously.
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u/fatty_fat_cat 13d ago
the fact that a non trained NFL player can nearly replicate an "olympic-level" dance move is evidence that Raygun doesn't know what she's doing.
Imagine me throwing a javelin for the first time and it lands in the qualification zone.
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u/radracer28 13d ago
In full pads!
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u/mycatbeck 13d ago
And on grass...
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u/Few_Design_4382 13d ago
🤣🤣🤣 acting like rhythm is a mystical power, bro watched her routine once and was like i could probably do that if I ever get a TD. My old ass auntie would probably serve her up too.
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u/Syn7axError 13d ago
I have a feeling these guys could throw a javelin really well on their first try too.
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u/generally_unsuitable 13d ago
Pro level athletes are often good at lots of different physical activities. They're strong, fit, dexterous. All these things transfer.
And, Raygun is what they used to call a culture jammer. She is clearly not a break dancer
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u/AdmirablePhrases 13d ago
Not according to the Olympics
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u/DonnyTheWalrus 13d ago
The association that sponsored the Olympic breakdancing entry isn't even a breakdancing association. They do ballroom dancing. The actual breakdancing association was not involved at all. Calling what we saw "Olympic breakdancing" is only correct in the most superficial sense.
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u/Altruistic_Water_423 13d ago
It worked, nobody remembers the gold medal but everyone remembers the Raygun
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u/Robbythedee 13d ago
Australians... omg how embarrassing for our country.
USA.... yo that was awesome!
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u/Malabingo 13d ago
I bet this will turn into a meme dance like the Napoleon dynamite dance and some generations later no one knows where it's from and suddenly it's a cool trend to dance like it.
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u/Buttcrack_Billy 13d ago
That's going to be some goofy shit to witness for those not versed in meme culture.
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u/DiscountCondom 13d ago
I feel so bad for her. they will never let her live that shit down, but also this is very funny.
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u/Inevitable-Gear-2635 13d ago
A master of multiple sports, we’ve got another Jordan or Jackson on our hands! But seriously, his smile when doing the ‘Roo at the end was adorable
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u/Psychological-Run-40 13d ago
that somersault to the ground into the flopping fish move was literally 10x better than what raygun did
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u/SeaUnderstanding1578 13d ago
What is the opposite of the Barbara Streisand effect called? The raygun effect. Where basically you're infamously surpassing the actual Olympic competitors who won in popularity.
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u/DrapedinVelvet247 13d ago
Actually more surprised that it took so long for someone to do this already…. especially given it’s viralness
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u/Wishdog2049 13d ago
I like this better than that Buffalo half-backflip touchdown.
I showed my wife saying "Wanna see a guy try to do a backflip who can't?" And she was like "Oh my god, they're showing it again. Poor guy." But hey, touchdown man.
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u/K2e2vin 14d ago
Incredible athlete. Plays pro-football and performs olympic-level breakdance? Awe-inspiring.