Somewhere after Ali (Cassius Clay) winning Gold in 1960 in Rome, Americans Tommy Smith and John Carlos holding up a black gloved fist on the medal podium in Mexico City in 1968, Sugar Ray Leonard winning a Gold medal in Montreal in 1976, and Carl Lewis winning nine Olympic gold medals, including world records in the long jump and 100 meter dash....
they added breakdancing to the summer Olympics when we were not looking.
And here is the Australian women's entry into the event. She was so bad she has set the internet on fire.
But really, breakdancing is an Olympic event? We are doomed.
Here is her now infamous "Kangaroo" move.
We surrender
This is hilarious. I haven’t laughed so hard watching it, but also watching all the commentaries and reenactments. The bad news is that even though this woman was serious about her abilities, apparently trained hard, and really believed she had some talent, many Aussies are so pissed at her for embarrassing them that she may end up living in bush land with the rest of her kangaroo family. The good news is that breakdancing won’t be in the 2028 Olympics and likely never none others. They test run different sports every Olympics (although the IOC knew that categorizing breakdancing as a sport was a stretch and they did it more to attract a younger crowd) and the b-boys and b-girls didn’t pass the test.
ReplyDeleteIt’s just a shame that Rachel Gunn, an Australian “academic” who writes about “cultural movement,” who thought having breaking in the Olympics amounted to “colonization” of the street art, who leveraged the selection process for the team – she and her husband co-chaired the selection committee – who participated as part of her “research,” and who has promised yet more “scholarly” articles based on her experience, has become the focus of discussion about this event. Now, whenever anyone wants to denigrate inclusion of breaking – and often to slide in a little casual classism or racism along with their denigration – they point to her pastiche of a performance and say, “Look. THIS is Olympic breaking. Haw haw.” (I’m guessing none of these people ever bother to note how damned silly dressage is. Wonder why that might be.)
ReplyDeleteIt’s a shame, because we watched a good bit of this competition and some of the athletes – for that’s what they are – were astonishing, putting on performances to rival or exceed any gymnastic floor exercise in strength, agility and power, and all without being able to pre-plan their routine. Add to that the energetic, widely inclusive nature of everything about the event, and it was entertaining and satisfying to see. But their moment in the sun, their chance for serious competition on the world stage, is now a cheap punchline for folks whose understanding begins and ends with memes on Twitter.
It’s a shame that Gunn went as protest, to make mock, and to bulk up her JSTORS library. And it’s a shame that her mockery worked. The IOC – ever a bastion of rectitude, moral clarity and courage – has announced breaking is out for the next summer games – in L.A., no less.
Is it really that different than anything else judged on points?
ReplyDeleteWhy are you bringing up this?
ReplyDeleteWe need local news. Not news about a middle aged mother who break dances.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the scandal updates?
ReplyDeleteThere’s a gaslighting training if anyone wants to attend. 1 hour CLE credit.
ReplyDeleteto the cranky sourpuss at 355-- even the local news on TV has world affair news. Life is serious enough, lighten up. The blog also has a humorous side
ReplyDeleteYeah 3:55 cranky sourpuss.
DeleteHeard the Professor won his case.
ReplyDeleteEasy to win when you cheat.
DeleteThe guy cheated? How? By catching the public defenders witness tampering? Lord.
DeleteWho is he to determine they witness tampered - you need an investigation you need an independent agency. That is the problem with the SAO at this point. You guys are fucking everybody and fucking your own reputations daily - the judges think you’re a bunch of clowns - do you not realize that yet? Those judges trust a handful of prosecutors in that office, and that’s it.
DeleteSad that ASAs that prosecute tampering charges don’t know what tampering is.
DeleteAbahoff tampered, but I’m sure his office won’t investigate him.
Oh wait… prosecutorial immunity.
Abudoff is a genius
DeleteIt is no surprise that the SAO is not turning over facial recognition evidence. What else are they not turning over these days?
ReplyDeleteWe need a Gosney part 3 Herald
ReplyDeleteLeave the dude alone. He’s gone. Good riddance…
DeleteDid he get fired? What did he do?
DeleteNo one has yet confirmed that he is gone or the terms of his departure.
DeleteWho is this mythical creature named Gosney? I’ve never seen him at the SAO.
DeleteLooks like the mystery will end on Sunday …
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DeleteGosney still a disaster. What were his terms of departure?
ReplyDeleteAbahpff opened an investigation into his co counsel during a pending case. Rather than handling it all professionally, he tried for a strategic advantage. I would hope he would win. Rat.
ReplyDeleteRat? Interesting. That’s what the PDs called the witness when trying to tamper with her.
DeleteWait, what? His co-counsel meaning another ASA? Who? Why?
DeleteWhere did he learn that slimy maneuver?
DeleteI smell a rat 🐀
DeleteHis co counsel, another ASA? Wait what?
DeleteHe learned that slimy maneuver from Talpins and MVZ who were both permitted to investigate or threaten to investigate others for doing their jobs. The SAO uses unchecked power to get what they want. The SAO is imploding.
ReplyDeleteIt is. And it’s sad that decent ethical ASAs are being driven away because of it.
DeleteYes morale is very low and very bad. Working conditions are nearly intolerable.
DeleteTalpins did not care for VZ. Do not blame him!! And try leaving him alone you trolls.
ReplyDeleteTalpins is not teaching people that you clowns. Whatever his flaws are, he is not a shady character like MVZ, Mitchell, Khalil, Abuhoff, Weintraub etc. Talpins has an agenda to be viewed as indispensable by Rundle. That is his biggest flaw, having his nose so far up Rundle’s ass, and everybody sees the shit stains on his face. It’s unfortunate, because he could have had a very well respected reputation and persona had he handled it all correctly and treated people properly. That said, he doesn’t deserve some of these drags. Others in her administration are much more vile and deceptive and incompetent and out to save their very big salaries at ANY cost.
ReplyDeletelol big salaries
DeleteBest team in America!
DeleteThis take is the opposite of my experience and those of people I know. First, MVZ is so far beyond the pale, no one deserves being mentioned in the same sentence. Andrea only castigated Mitchell and Hubner as guilty by association, not for anything they did. Weintraub, Abuhoff, and Quinan are all pains in the ass in one way or another but none have been “shady.” I’m not aware of anything recently with Weintraub and the things with Abuhoff and Quinan were transparent. They might have been wrong, but they were arguable and not shady. I’d also add here that I recall people singing Abuhoff’s praises on this blog forever ago in the context of dismissing cases. We can’t like someone when they dismiss our client’s cases and then hate them when they prosecute other clients. Abuhoff is absolutely smug, pretentious, and holier than thou. But shady he isn’t. The same is true for Quinan. Some of you still don’t know the difference between him and Madani. I also don’t understand calling Quinan shady since he talks too much. Give him enough rope and he’ll tell you his whole case. He might be an asshole, but shady he is not. I also know of cases by all the “shady” lawyers mentioned above where there was some kind of injustice and they contorted themselves to make it right, which is the antithesis of “shady.”
DeleteThat takes me to Talpins, because if you want to talk about shady slime ball that’s the guy. First, the “shady” people mentioned above are all trial lawyers. They’ve had it out with people and there is longstanding beef with people that take this personally. That people find Talpins shady, and all he does is take calls, speaks volumes. Second, there is a clear and direct correlation between his return to the office and the office’s decline. Why that is, I have no clue, but that is reflective of whatever business is happening behind closed doors that is driving people out.
As for Talpins - maybe his disgusting philosophy that everyone is guilty. No mistakes could’ve been made by SAO. And if you throw people in prison they cannot reoffend. And then call it SMART JUSTICE. Sounds like blind justice to me.
DeleteAs for Quinan and Abuhoff, I find with them and others, as they move up the chain they got worse. I do think we can praise them one day and complain the next. Because they have advanced and with their advancement they got rotten. My philosophy of that office is (for the most part) the ASAs are decent and as they advance, they either cannot handle the pressure of the shady higher up’s and leave or they conform and get rotten. I’ll name a few great ASAs who did the right thing but couldn’t deal with the SAO BS. Huge loss to office — Christine Palmer, Nicole Navarro, Ana Cuello, Yale Sanford, …. I know there’s more…
And yet a week ago you all would call Yale a bootlicker frat boy with Shawn. Your only metric is whether they left - assuming they left because of “rottenness” with the office rather than, ya know, money. The ones that stay aren’t “rotten.” Some stay because of loans (not everyone is privileged to graduate law school with no debt). Others stay because of a commitment to public service. Your not liking someone because they did their jobs is not their problem. It’s yours.
DeleteHello Abuhoff’s groupie 8:11 perhaps you should go to Andrea’s courtroom some time so you can see that yet another FACDL accused him of every type of prosecutorial misconduct a prosecutor can possibly commit in a criminal case, including witness tampering, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/hialeah/article289444112.html
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