The Australian women’s breakdancing contestant performed an absolutely inexplicable routine with no breakdancing in it and just a bunch of random body movements and extreme weirdness. Her official explanation is that she knew she couldn’t compete with the younger, more athletic contestants (she’s like 40) so she decided to compete with creativity, but I’m sure there’s something else going on. My theory is that she had something like a panic attack and was basically out of her head and got all these weird ideas and had a freak out.
My theory is that she made a joke of it because it was already planned that the event would be a one of anyway so clearly the IOC doesn’t give a crap about the discipline.
I heard that it was a nepo job- she or someone she knows/is related to is on the aussie breakdance committee. I may be spreading misinformation tho cba to Google
Australia straight up just doesn’t have a breaking scene comparable to the rest of the world, ESPECIALLY for women. She is genuinely the best they had to offer, and she was made fun of by her own country BEFORE the olympics had even taken place.
She’s a cultural studies professor at Macquarie University and her doctoral thesis was titled “Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney’s Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl’s Experience of B-boying”. She’s genuinely spent a large portion of her life studying break dancing as an artistic form of cultural expression.
She’s also now the “bad breakdancing meme girl” and boy howdy that just bums me out.
She really did singlehandedly turn “breaking” into a punchline, didn’t she?
I’ve seen the memes but what actually happened?
The Australian women’s breakdancing contestant performed an absolutely inexplicable routine with no breakdancing in it and just a bunch of random body movements and extreme weirdness. Her official explanation is that she knew she couldn’t compete with the younger, more athletic contestants (she’s like 40) so she decided to compete with creativity, but I’m sure there’s something else going on. My theory is that she had something like a panic attack and was basically out of her head and got all these weird ideas and had a freak out.
My theory is that she made a joke of it because it was already planned that the event would be a one of anyway so clearly the IOC doesn’t give a crap about the discipline.
It destroyed her career, I doubt it was deliberate…
Career? I doubt she was doing that as a career
I suggest you do a bit of research, because dancing and teaching breaking was very much her career. She had a degree in it, somehow.
I heard that it was a nepo job- she or someone she knows/is related to is on the aussie breakdance committee. I may be spreading misinformation tho cba to Google
This isn’t true, people claimed that her husband (also a breakdancer) was part of the selectrion commitee but that is false.
Also don’t know shit except that she has some talent, but she got absolutely mogged by several people she completed against and inexplicably won.
Her husband was heavily involved in the selection process. I don’t remember the full details, but there was definitely some dodgy stuff happening.
Australia straight up just doesn’t have a breaking scene comparable to the rest of the world, ESPECIALLY for women. She is genuinely the best they had to offer, and she was made fun of by her own country BEFORE the olympics had even taken place.
She’s a cultural studies professor at Macquarie University and her doctoral thesis was titled “Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney’s Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl’s Experience of B-boying”. She’s genuinely spent a large portion of her life studying break dancing as an artistic form of cultural expression.
She’s also now the “bad breakdancing meme girl” and boy howdy that just bums me out.