Posted on 08/11/2024 6:04:11 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Australian who has gone viral for her shocking Olympic routine has lashed the IOC for axing the new sport of breaking without giving it a chance to succeed.
Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn sent the internet into hysterics with her debut Olympic Games performance overnight that failed to reap a single point in three rounds of heats.
She hopped like a kangaroo, resembled a T-Rex at times and rolled around the floor in a disjointed way that confused and amused Aussies back home watching the sport for the first time.
There will be no second act, though, with breaking already cut from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games and highly unlikely to re-surface in Brisbane in 2032.
Vice president of Breaking for Gold USA and USA Dance Zack Slusser said the early axing of the debutant sport was because athletes could not afford it.
'It was a miracle that we were even in Paris to begin with,' he said.
'But for the breaking community, it's an achievement worth celebrating, even if it doesn't return to the Olympic stage.'
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Good grief. And they wonder why there are groups of people who have simply lost interest in watching the “Olympics”.
Breakdancing isn’t a sport. What moron thought it should be an Olympic event?
Lol! He probably started the whole break dancing phenomena
I can’t believe the judges sat through that without bursting out in laughter. That’s ridiculous.
I am old enough to remember break dancing.
That was not break dancing.
Sooooo-eeeet! Here, pig, pig, pig, pig!
Me and the Wife watched both mens and women’s competition of breakin. The women looked awful, as I fully expected, they were mostly all the same build, short and stout, and looked ridiculous in their hip hop get ups. The girl from Lithuania was wearing a tight black head scarf wrap that I’ve only ever seen big black gangster dudes wear, and it made her look like a cancer patient. The bottom line is the women looked awful and their performances were overall terrible, simply because they lack the strength and endurance to make this dance look good, as it’s a highly athletic thing to do.
We were embarrassed watching RayGun do whatever it was she was doing. When she walked up to the platform I knew right away something was wrong with that lady, I mean she literally looked like someones mom that was out to show her kids mommy can dance. She had a mom ass and her gear was like a caricature of 80’s hip hop with her track suit. It was awful, and she didn’t gain a single vote from any performance.
Look, I’m a person that loves breakdancing as an art, I really enjoy watching people perform it, and I enjoy the music as well. The women can do it, but it’s a joke. The mens competition was much better with many seasoned veterans, and for the most part they all performed professionally.
I think the French dancer was getting some home field advantage from the judges because while being very good, I didn’t think he outperformed either of the 2 American boys. Some of you might scoff at breakdancing, but when you watch the men, you can clearly see that they are performing moves that only gymnasts are doing on the Pommel Horse or on Floor Exercise, only doing it in sync with random music tracks. It’s quite impressive to me, to each their own.
I’d rather watch this then the very non-diverse Basketball contest. If I had my way the Olympics would be gymnastics and track & field, that’s it.
Breakdance Fighting is a competitive combat form, like Boxing, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, and Wrestling.
From Zoolander:
From Breakin':
From Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo:
Oh, that's right, it's all made up bullspit. Although Domestic Violence is an Olympic Sport as evidenced by the men beating up women in the boxing ring.
OK, so I wake up to these pictures - let’s see if the day can get any stupider.
“ OK, so I wake up to these pictures - let’s see if the day can get any stupider.”
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What time is the TWERKING GOLD MEDAL round being broadcast this afternoon?
NBC got what they wanted - millions of viewers. Why waste time with athletes when you can get someone who’s mentally ill to twerk on camera?
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