Matilda Kearns
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Sep 17, 2026
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Gymnast Gracie Kramer throwing shade at Sweeney, posting this video to Instagram saying, this is what a woman in sports looks like over her gravity-defying moves.
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Olympic water polo player Tilly Kearns told ABC Australia Sweeney's ad is pushing women's progress backwards.
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Most female athletes kind of spend our whole careers trying to rebuttal
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the idea that we are a lot more than obviously just our bodies.
AJ BenzaHOST
All these angry female athletes who nobody ever heard of can piggyback off Sydney Sweeney's fame now, but they're just jealous idiots.
AJ BenzaHOST
You got a British sprinter named Amy Hunt, an Australian water player named Tilly Kearns, and a former UCLA gymnast named Gracie Kramer who are criticizing the campaign.
AJ BenzaHOST
I don't know what any of these three look like or what they've done.
AJ BenzaHOST
I don't care.
Alice BrineHOST
That's it in a nutshell.
Jamie EastHOST
Uh, water polo, uh, [laughs] silver medalist Tilly Kearns, uh, summarized it by saying, "I absolutely fucking hate Sydney Sweeney's new sports ad." Succinct, to the point, don't sit on the fence.
Jamie EastHOST
Um, who, who was this? This was, uh, Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus.
Jamie EastHOST
Uh, "I can't describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this.
Juju ChangHOST
Gymnast Gracie Kramer throwing shade at Sweeney, posting this video to Instagram, saying, this is what a woman in sports looks like over her gravity-defying moves.
Juju ChangHOST
Olympic water polo player Tilly Kearns told ABC Australia Sweeney's ad is pushing women's progress backwards.
Juju ChangHOST
Most female athletes kind of spend our whole careers trying to rebuttal
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the idea that we are a lot more than obviously just our bodies.
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Gymnast Gracie Kramer throwing shade at Sweeney, posting this video to Instagram, saying this is what a woman in sports looks like over her gravity defying moves.
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Olympic water polo player Tilly Kearns told ABC Australia Sweeney's ad is pushing women's progress backwards.
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Most female athletes kind of spend our whole career is trying to rebuttal the idea that we are a lot more than
Chad BensonHOST
obviously just our bodies.
Helena BurkeCORRESPONDENT
In response to the ad, dozens of videos have been posted online by female athletes showing themselves training and competing.
Helena BurkeCORRESPONDENT
The Olympic water polo player, Tilly Kearns, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that she believes the ad undermines the progress made in changing public perceptions of women's sport.
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It's something that myself, but most female athletes kinda spend our whole careers trying to rebuttal, um, the idea that we are a lot more than obviously just our bodies.
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Lately, we've been taking such huge steps forward in the worlds of female athletes and being taken seriously, but this does feel like a big step backwards.
LauraHOST
The video is for US sports prediction market company, Novig, of which she's a strategic partner and an equity holder.
LauraHOST
Among those who've clapped back with comments and videos of their own are British sprinter Amy Hunt, American gymnast Gracie Kramer, and from Australia, surfer Felicity Palmateer, swimmer Lanny Paloster, and water polo player Tilly Kearns.
LauraHOST
I'm joined now by our own Karen Duggan, former Irish international.
LauraHOST
Good morning, Karen.
Ricki-Lee CoulterHOST
Ariarne Titmus has said, "I can't describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this.
Ricki-Lee CoulterHOST
How do we live in a world where monetizing a woman's body and sexualizing women's sport is still a thing? Sydney Sweeney, do better." Tilly Kearns, an Olympic water, water polo player for Australia, "I absolutely effing hate Sydney Sweeney's new sports ad.
Ricki-Lee CoulterHOST
Like, what are we doing?" Sky Nicholson, world champion boxer, "There's a big difference between looking sexy because you do sport compared to using sex to sell sport." And Felicity Palmateer, Australian surfer legend, "Just about, just absolute, utter disbelief.
Ricki-Lee CoulterHOST
Incredibly disappointing.
Nick KellyHOST
Yep.
Lauren BarryHOST
Um, Australian water polo player, uh, Tilly Kearns, she reacted by sharing on social media what her sport lifes- lifestyle looked like by contrast, with several shots of action in the pool accompanied by, um, the camaraderie that she shares with her teammates.
Nick KellyHOST
Mm.
Lauren BarryHOST
And she wrote, "I absolutely effing hate Sydney Sweeney's new sports ad.
Peter FeaginCORRESPONDENT
You've got Lani Pallister, another swimmer who says no words.
Peter FeaginCORRESPONDENT
And you've got Tilly Kearns, the water polo that says she effing hates this.
Peter FeaginCORRESPONDENT
Now, it has divided people.
Peter FeaginCORRESPONDENT
Now, mainly voices are coming from female athletes.
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