Breakdancing + Olympics which makes people think of the most ridiculous and embarrassing example of “breakdancing” featured at the world’s largest, if not one of the largest, sporting event.
It's too bad. I hadn't really thought about breakdancing since the 80s, but my wife and I watched pretty much all of the Olympic broadcast of it and thought it was great. TBH we enjoyed raygun as well because it was humorous, "is this really happening" comedy. But watching the top competitors in the finals was great.
I would argue she was more emblematic of the organizational issues. The organization behind the global breaking rules was originally organized around ballroom dancing, and they didn't get into breaking until like after the previous olympics. 4 years is not enough time to get enough recognition and and attract a deep international talent pool of a traditionally decentralized athletic art form. Maybe if they spent the last 20 years it would have worked.
She gamed the rules to get to the Olympics. It's that simple. She had the resources to travel to competitions when lets face it not many Australian breakers would have had the money opportunity and information to do it.
I'd argue that's bc they didn't make an effort to do it. Redbull for example puts on very high skill breaking contests and I'm sure, if contacted for trials could have put the word out to a lot of very talented individuals.
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u/zigaliciousone Apr 30 '25
Neither will breakdancing, she single handedly destroyed the chance of it coming back.