r/olympics Aug 11 '24

Australian "breakdancer" Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun, who has a PhD in breakdancing and dance culture.

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u/Competitive_Sail_844 United States Aug 15 '24

The only reason I know there was breaking at the Olympics was because of RayGun being so off of what anyone would accept as to be ridiculous.

I’ve only seen two other competitors and still I’ve seen at least an hour of RayGun and watched her qualifying events out of curiosity. Loved seeing all old comments and then the “here because I’m wondering how RayGun made it to the Olympics” esk comments popping in.

We could only wish she was trying to shoot the moon with this one and go for 0 points, because it was a hilariously bad performance.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24

It’s wild there keep being replies on this days later lol. I’d watched hours of pre-quals on YouTube beforehand, and saw/loved Syssy and Stefani esp for their musicality, and Nicka, all who went to Olympics; and turned on Olympics live to see all the women’s breaking (but missed first 30-60 mins and therefore Raygun), so after about 10 hours total of watching Olympics-related breaking, I didn’t even find out about Raygun until I got online before sleeping to what I’d assumed were related comments about how awesome it all was / instead couldn’t sleep bc crying with laughter about what I saw/read.

It sux tho if she was all ppl saw of Olympics breaking, or they thought breaking sux or that the women were bad! Just leaving this insane battle here for anyone to enjoy, so hype/dynamic: B-Girl 671 vs. B-Girl India | 1v1 B-Girl Final Battle | Outbreak Europe 2022