What a shit show.
Of course having neither NBC nor peacock I didn't have access to watch any of it. Plus, I kind of don't watch sports at all anyway so there's that too. But social media provided plenty of footage and buzz galore over the past few weeks.
From the controversial opening ceremonies featuring teams floating down the polluted Seine River in what amounts to bilge barges, the lackluster spectator turnout perhaps due to the persistent rain, and of course the drag queen Last Supper depiction, many alt right channels dub this the woke Olympics.
Down at the athletes village, where competitors were quartered in rooms fashioned with cardboard beds and fed meager plant-based eco-friendly food stuffs that were more virtue signaling than sustenance.
One women's boxing competition ended within seconds when one athlete tapped out immediately complaining of her nose being sore, like that wasn't a consideration before she got in the ring. The implication was that her opponent was potentially either trans or genetically enhance hormonally to give them masculine strength. Plot twist: They were from a Muslim country so it's extremely doubtful that she was trans.
But certainly the height of it all was the brand new breakdance event and Australia's entry, a 34-year-old going by the "street" name "Raygun." She bust her moves and earned herself zero points.
Of course she's the laughing stock of the internet and many people are actually pissed off that she was there at all contending that her spot could have gone to somebody who actually deserved it, and I kind of see where they're coming from.
I'm not a big fan of breakdancing, but I'm old enough to have seen the evolution of it, and I certainly know what good breakdancing looks like and can appreciate the athleticism and skill required for a really good routine. There are a lot of people that think that this lady totally trolled her country's Olympics committee and got a free ride to Paris with some likely lucrative contracts lined up, if anything, only due to her blow up in controversial popularity over her decidedly bizarre dance moves.
Of course there have been a ton of spoofs that have already hit the cyber airwaves, so to speak, but one of the best has also been one of the briefest. And it's only because it was done by perhaps the perfect epitome of a middle-aged goofball character type. To be honest, I could think of no better person to portray this so-called Olympic athlete than the one and only great Rachel Dratch.