Olympic Breakdancer Raygun Announces Retirement After Criticism

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The 2024 Olympics had hardly begun erstwhile Bev Priestman, caput manager of the  Canadian women's shot team, was removed from her station by Canada Soccer aft her unit was accused of utilizing drones to spy connected the New Zealand squad up of their radical signifier match.

"Additional accusation has travel to our attraction regarding previous drone usage against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games," Canada Soccer CEO and wide secretary Kevin Blue said successful a July 25 connection explaining the decision. "In airy of these caller revelations, Canada Soccer has made the determination to suspend…Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and until the completion of our precocious announced autarkic outer review." 

Priestman apologized, saying successful a statement, "I americium perfectly heartbroken for the players, and I would similar to apologize from the bottommost of my bosom for the interaction this concern has had connected each of them."

The team, which won golden successful Tokyo, is "a radical of radical who attraction precise overmuch astir sportsmanship and integrity," she continued. "As the person of the squad connected the field, I privation to instrumentality accountability, and I program to afloat co-operate with the [Canadian Soccer Association] investigation."

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As the vessel carrying athletes from South Korea came into presumption during the July 26 Opening Ceremony, they were incorrectly announced successful some French and English arsenic being from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea—which is North Korea.

South Korea, meanwhile, is the Republic of Korea.

In a July 27 statement, the International Olympic Committee noted, "We profoundly apologize for the mistake that occurred erstwhile introducing the Korean squad during the Opening Ceremony broadcast."

IOC President Thomas Bach besides called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to apologize, per the main executive's office, which relayed that Yoon told Bach the radical of South Korea were "very shocked and embarrassed" by the mistake. An IOC spokesperson called the mistake an "operational mistake" that was "clearly profoundly regrettable."

Parade bid is determined alphabetically according to the big nation's language—minus Greece, which ever goes archetypal arsenic the location of the archetypal Olympics, and the big federation goes last. South Korea was the 48th state successful the Parade of Nations, portion North Korea was 153rd.

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British commentator Bob Ballard was pulled from Eurostar's Olympics sum for making a remark that was wide derided arsenic sexist aft Australian swimmers Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris won golden successful the 4x100-meter freestyle relay.

"Well, the women conscionable finishing off," Ballard said pursuing the race. "You cognize what women are like…hanging around, doing their makeup."

His co-commentator Lizzie Simmonds replied, "Outrageous, Bob. Some of the men are doing that arsenic well."

Calling his remark "inappropriate," Eurostar said successful a July 29 connection Ballard had been removed with "immediate effect" from further coverage.

The seasoned sportscaster promptly apologized.

"The comments I made during the Australian freestyle relay triumph ceremonial connected Saturday person caused immoderate offence," he wrote connected X. "It was ne'er my volition to upset oregon belittle anyone and, if I did, I apologise. I americium a monolithic advocator of women’s sport."

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After speculation that a too-shallow excavation wrong La Defense Arena was liable for slower-than-expected times successful swimming, the athletes torpedoed the thought that the h2o wasn't heavy capable to smash records.

"I deliberation it's wholly a myth," Team USA's Regan Smith, who swam distant from Paris with 5 medals, told NBCOlympics.com aft she and Gretchen Walsh, Lilly King and Torri Huske acceptable a caller satellite grounds successful the women's 4x100-meter medley. "I deliberation astatine archetypal radical were precise alert of [the deficiency of caller records]… So, I deliberation that caused immoderate chatter, like, 'Oh, is it the excavation that's doing this?' But I deliberation arsenic the conscionable went on, radical got utilized to it, and past I deliberation they got much comfy with it, and past we started seeing immoderate truly accelerated swims."

Added four-time medalist Walsh, "I deliberation overmuch of what the Olympics is, and what it represents, makes immoderate excavation that it's astatine consciousness benignant of slow. Because you person truthful overmuch unit connected yourself that it is hard astatine your 100 percent best."

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Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira was sent home after, according to the Brazilian Olympic Committee, she committed 2 "acts of indiscipline": She near the Olympic Village with boyfriend/teammate Gabriel Santos without permission, the BOC said, aft acting "in a disrespectful and assertive manner" successful effect to a "technical determination made by the Brazilian Swimming Team committee" regarding the 4x100m freestyle relay.

In a video titled "How a connection nonaccomplishment destroyed my Olympic dream," Vieira lamented what happened but said, "everything is going to beryllium solved astatine the close time."

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The Paraguayan Olympic Committee asked swimmer Luana Alonso to permission the Games, alleging successful a connection that she had created an "inappropriate ambiance astatine the Heart of Team Paraguay."

"We convey her for proceeding arsenic instructed," the connection continued, "as it was of her ain escaped volition that she did not walk the nighttime successful the Athletes' Village."

The Southern Methodist University pupil had seemingly already returned to Texas erstwhile she wrote connected Instagram Story (translated from Spanish) Aug. 5, "I conscionable wanted to marque it wide that I was ne'er removed oregon expelled from anywhere, halt spreading mendacious information. I don’t privation to springiness immoderate connection but I’m not going to fto lies impact maine either."

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Simone Biles had already fto it beryllium known what she thought of Tokyo teammate MyKayla Skinner's criticism of the U.S. gymnastics squad selected to spell to Paris—and Skinner had apologized for saying successful a since-deleted video that "the endowment and the extent conscionable isn't similar what it utilized to be" and that "obviously a batch of girls don't enactment arsenic hard."

But aft the 2024 squad won squad gold, Biles captioned a photograph of the athletes, "Lack of talent, lazy, athletics champions"—an apparent jab astatine Skinner's archetypal comment.

On Aug. 6, Skinner reiterated successful an Instagram video that she had "poorly" articulated her archetypal point. But, she added, the cyberbullying she and her household had been taxable to—fallout from her cyberfeud with Biles—had gotten retired of hand.

She pleaded with the seven-time golden medalist "to delight enactment a halt to this. Please inquire your followers to stop."

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Neither Biles nor Suni Lee medaled successful beam this twelvemonth aft some gymnasts fell disconnected the apparatus during their last routines.

Afterward, Biles commented connected the strangely quiescent situation during their penultimate lawsuit successful Paris.

"It was truly weird and awkward," the athlete, who earned bronze connected beam successful Tokyo, told the Associated Press. "We've asked respective times if we tin person immoderate music, oregon immoderate inheritance noise. I'm not truly definite what happened there, but yeah, not our favorite. None of america liked it."

In effect to the GOAT's complaint, an International Gymnastics Federation said the ambiance was "part of the athletics presumption program astatine Paris 2024."

Lee noted that "the unit was decidedly on" and "a batch of radical were decidedly feeling it."

She wondered if it was truthful quiescent the adjacent photographers could perceive her breathing.

"It adds to the stress," Lee said, "just due to the fact that it’s similar you, yes, you're the lone 1 up there. So I was feeling the pressure.”

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Jordan Chiles seemingly finished retired of the moving for a medal erstwhile she completed her level workout last regular and received a people of 13.666, Romania's Ana Barbosu up of her successful 3rd spot with a people of 13.700.

But aft Team USA filed a people inquiry connected Chiles' behalf and her show was further reviewed by the judges, her commencement worth was accrued by one-tenth of a point. As a result, her people was subsequently bumped up to 13.766. Meaning, she got the bronze and Barbosu—who was already waving her country's emblem successful celebration—left the arena successful tears.

Afterward, Barbosu posted a video of herself competing and wrote, "Thank you to everyone who encouraged maine before, during, and aft the competition."

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Medal adjustments haven't been confined to the gymnastics arena.

Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon was initially disqualified for seeming to jostle Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia during the women's 5,000 meters astatine the Stade de France connected Aug. 5, negating her second-place finish.

"I person ne'er seen thing similar that, successful an Olympic last that went connected for truthful long," commentator Kara Goucher, a two-time Olympian, said connected the broadcast, noting that the 2 women besides appeared to speech heated words. "You spot a small spot of elbow, you spot a small spot of frustration, but that was galore strides and scolding."

It wasn't until the wee hours of Aug. 6 that Kipyegon recovered retired her metallic medal had been reinstated. The Olympic Jury of Appeal ruled that, portion determination had been "significant contact" betwixt her and Tsegay, "the incidental did not warrant a disqualification."

With that, Italy's Nadia Battocletti—the fourth-place finisher bumped into bronze presumption by the disqualification—was re-relegated to fourth.

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Two athletes' hopes of a medal were dashed erstwhile they unwittingly broke rules mid-swim, meaning they didn't adjacent cognize they were retired until they finished their races.

Great Britain's Luke Greenbank finished archetypal successful his 200-meter backstroke vigor but was disqualified for staying underwater for further than the maximum 15 meters aft archetypal diving in.

"Win oregon suffer I’ve ever been my ain harshest professional but sometimes you’ve conscionable got to instrumentality it arsenic it comes," helium wrote connected Instagram Aug. 1. "I tin instrumentality pridefulness successful the information that I cognize I was successful large signifier coming into these games aft a pugnacious fewer years, but this volition motivate maine to travel backmost stronger."

A method mistake besides knocked Alex Walsh disconnected the 200-meter idiosyncratic medley podium aft she finished successful the bronze position. As she approached the partition during the past limb of her backstroke, she made an amerciable crook by starting to flip retired of presumption earlier she tapped the partition and launched into her breaststroke.

"Still proud," Walsh wrote connected Instagram Aug. 6, thanking her supporters a fewer days aft the race. "Despite the DQ, this Olympics has been an acquisition that has near maine feeling blessed and fulfilled, and I volition cherish that forever. After all, everything happens for a crushed and determination is truthful overmuch much to beryllium excited astir for maine successful this sport."

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Despite $1.53 cardinal having been budgeted to cleanable up the perennially polluted Seine, reports swirled for months starring up to the Paris Games astir whether it would beryllium harmless capable to clasp the swimming limb of the triathlons and the 10-kilometer marathons successful the river.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo went for a swim July 17 and declared France's astir celebrated assemblage of h2o bully to go—but it's been benignant of a s--t amusement since the Olympics began.

On Monday, July 29, swims for the triathletes to familiarize themselves with the Seine were canceled, officials citing mediocre h2o prime levels caused by run-off from the weekend's dense rains (which noticeably started during the July 26 Opening Ceremony).

The men's triathlon was past postponed a time and rescheduled to travel the women's lawsuit connected July 31 aft organizers deemed bacteria levels excessively precocious for a harmless swim.

Both triathlons were held July 31, day-of tests uncovering that E. coli and intestinal enterococci levels were debased capable to suffice the h2o arsenic "excellent quality," per the European Union's Bathing Water Directive.

But speculation that the h2o wasn't harmless resumed aft 2 athletes who competed successful the triathlon dropped retired of the mixed-relay competition, citing respective illnesses (neither of which person been definitively linked to swimming successful the Seine).

The women's and men's 10km are inactive scheduled for Aug. 8 and 9, but practices were canceled Aug. 6 aft tests showed bacteria levels were erstwhile again excessively high.

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