Introducing "The Irukandjis."
Outside of Eddie the Eagle, I have zero room in my heart for Olympic nicknames, especially when they refer to teams. Wallabies and kangaroos, Fierce Fives and Fabulous Fours. Super lame but maybe lamest of all is the just announced nickname of Australia’s Olympic surf team.
Per the press release:
Australia’s Olympic surfing team have been named “The Irukandjis“, after a deadly species of jellyfish that menaces the country’s tropical northern waters.
The irukandji is a tiny, highly venomous, species of box jellyfish that inflicts an incredibly painful sting on its victims.
“The irukandji’s sting in the water is ferocious and that is how our Australian surfers approach competition,” Surfing Australia chair and seven-time world champion, Layne Beachley said as the team’s new name was announced on Wednesday.
That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
Wow.
Sorry for the totally out-of-proportion splash of grump.
Continuing…
The team’s kit was designed by Indigenous artist Jasmine Craciun, who derived inspiration from her ancestors the Barkindji people, to “represent fluid movement within the water and emulate light hitting the ocean when viewed from below.”
Very cool.
It will look beautiful on Julian Wilson.
That’s better.
It will be some surf lifesaving club exercise thing they were marking out.
As for the watchability of the event come time, that is beyond my prediction: weather / broadcast etc.
We’re so rapey
Sorry, can you translate?
Ya can’t forget ‘eric the eel’, the African (surf adjacent) swimmer, if you like ‘eddie the eagle’…
The only interesting thing about this is a commentator trying to pronounce it! Hell I’m from AUD I wouldn’t know!
The story of how they discovered which jellyfish actually caused Irukandji syndrome is almost unbelievable. An ex WWII commando who was also a doctor or medicine caught a bunch of them in a net and then tested the stingers on himself and his 9 year old son (!)
This is kind of hard core and candidate for badass of the month or worst parent ever!
https://litfl.com/jack-barn…
My uncle got stung in Cairns, didnt go into shock cuz he was so drunk.
Those ‘extras’ at the massage joints can add up.
I’m glad they sought permission to use the name from the traditional custodians of the jellyfish.
$$$$
Interesting that irukandji syndrome induces similar sensations to reading the BG comment section https://m.youtube.com/watch…
I must be small and cunty myself because it just makes me feel alive.
I think they both looked very alive too! I got a bad bluebottle sting a few weeks back so came home and had a shot of tequila. Can highly recommend the enlivening qualities
Full body pains?
I was waiting for the Olympics to lame up surfing officially. It seems we just needed Layne’s presser.
The Box jellyfish would have been worse. (Somehow)
Cuz nothing sparks fear in an opponent’s heart like an obscure jellyfish.
It might look good on Julez, but it’ll look best being licked by Ella Jean, apres “backdoor”
Indigenous. So hot right now.
not if you’re said one, un-contacted in the deep Amazon or elsewhere, intentionally avoiding all of this
You can identify as one if you like.
It’s your human right.
Haha how fucken cut are the gays, aboriginals and women gonna be when we all identify as gay aboriginal women? Karen’s gonna fucken blow her brains out.
I t’s a fact that if you were born in Australia then your previous life was as an aboriginal, it’s my human right to say its a fact.
They want to be small and very cunty in a rather waveless ocean, I found it to be rather apt.
True but that description suits every little surfer on the pro tour. Small and cunty. Olympic Games or not.
It’s not Australian exclusive
It’s hard being ferocious without a brain.
Tell that to the gimpy gimpy tree
I did, but it wouldn’t listen. Maybe it couldn’t.
It ripped it’s own ears off in the agony it brings, even to itself.
copy/paste “babe, i’m done being a journalist, today. can i have $20? wanna buy some baseball cards”
I already apologized. Leave me alone.
bend at the knees, not the waist.
I’m sure it sticks out far enough for him to kiss….
but not to fit in the pit.
Very woke
Bede: You hear me, Jules ?
You float like a butterfly and sting like an Irukandji
or something…
Just fucken win, ok ?