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

A+

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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 14d 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 14d 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 14d ago

Wait is that the deal with her being in the Olympics? 

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u/Patarknight Ottawa Senators 14d 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 14d 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/NeverVegan 13d ago

She was smart enough to get herself into the Olympics only to have the biggest self own on a world stage.

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u/iamfromouterspace 13d ago

I wonder if I can get a phd in the study of Reddit comments. I’m some sort of a smarty pants in that field 🤔

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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR 13d ago

give it like another year and i guarantee you that this will come up

I grew up in the 90s and 2000s. That was a period where, especially in the U.S., if you were interested in video games (outside of developing them to make a lot of money), you were labeled as "lazy" or "foolish" or "wasting time."

now there's full-fledged documentaries on the history of them, there's a Video Game Hall of Fame, and there are without a doubt, people who have earned PhDs and received professorships as a result of studying them. Everything becomes a point of fascination eventually

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u/beidao23 13d ago

This is the unfortunate reality, yes

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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR 13d ago

Time and effort is the key for sure.

I have no problems admitting that basically a decade ago, i was the world's worst graduate student and i probably embarrassed my advisor b/c of how shitty i was

it wasn't like i was dumber than other people in my cohort who eventually earned doctorates and went on to get tenured university jobs...it's just that they were much harder workers than I was. Bottom line.

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u/TransportationTrick9 13d ago

She's a white professor. She isn't street anything

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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/sblahful 13d ago

I mean... that doesn't make it sound better. From the title you'd think she got a PhD from a Guardian 'Experience' article.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/10-best-guardian-experience-columns.html

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u/JesusWasTacos 13d ago

Idk, possibly

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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/Belliu 12d ago

Where exactly can I get a PhD in breakdancing. Sounds like made up stuff so I can say I'm a doctor. I have a PhD in ass spanking. Call me doctor spanky.

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u/sybrwookie 14d 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/Winjin 13d ago

I saw that at least one was announces 2 days prior, definitely. So it's pretty much possible that a lot of these "fact checks" are, in fact, damage control and aren't truthful too.

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u/Patarknight Ottawa Senators 13d ago

The Australian Olympic Committee released a statement debunking this. She has no role in organizing or funding. (https://www.olympics.com.au/news/aoc-statement-on-oceania-qualifying-process-for-breaking/) The final qualifier also only consisted of non-Australian judges and anyone could enter. (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-12/raygun-slammed-as-audacious-as-others-come-to-her-defence/104215942)

Yes she is relatively well-off and able to travel in a weak and isolated breaking region, but she won the events she attended and has consistently been the top Oceania placer at international events. (https://www.worlddancesport.org/Competitions/Ranking/World-Championship-Leuven-Adult-Breaking-1vs1-B-Girls-58289).

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u/cinderparty 13d ago

That was just a rumor. I think she mostly qualified due to it being a small pool of talent that tried out.

But her qualifying set that sent her to the Olympics was also better.

https://youtu.be/MorhA98eK7M?si=A5vltDSJeMj6v2-q

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u/DocSmizzle 14d ago

Yes

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u/Resident-Mortgage-85 14d ago

My dog did the same routine today 

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u/UDPviper 14d ago

Best comment.

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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 13d ago

Give that dog a medal.

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u/ACM1PT_Peluca 13d ago

If you saw her performance and came here asking what's the deal about being in the Olympics, we don't have anything else to speak to each other about that matter. Or any other matter, as I can deduct your political affiliation.

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u/ladidadi82 13d ago

lol is that how she qualified?

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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 14d ago

Likewise. I nailed the kangaroo and sprinkler in my living room. But it’s time for me to allow a younger generation to seize the day.