The Mockery of RayGun

Apart from a few rowing races, I haven't watched the Olympics.

As discussed previously, the opening ceremony, the anti-women transgender movement and a divisive and entitled Matildas were enough to put me off.

However, I couldn't help but watch the social media videos of an Australian 'athlete' known as RayGun.

I write athlete, but this PHD academic was just an Olympic joke.

Her sport (if you can call it that) was breakdancing. While I don't think it should ever be considered an Olympic event, there's no doubt some participants are exceptionally talented.

Australia's entrant did not fall into that category.

She was hopeless and embarrassing, scoring zero points from an appalling performance.

It made a mockery of everything the Olympics used to represent - the pinnacle of sporting achievement.

In the past, we've seen some genuinely hopeless athletes strut the world stage, but that has usually been the preserve of competitors from third-world nations.

However, those sports require skills, courage, and talent to take the field. I'm sure breakdancing does, too, but Miss RayGun demonstrated none of that, so I wonder why she was there.

Her skills were entry-level at best, and any discernable talent was less than mediocre. A point could be credited for the courage to claim an Olympic berth with such limited ability.

If that's the case, it's one more point that she gained representing Australia.

Here are a few highlights that would bring a tear to a glass eye.