Breaking at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[ChandlerMne 1,204]

Raygun's performance alone is sufficient for an expulsion of this activity.

Didnt watch her routine live, catched it on a replay. That was something different.

Mocking inaugural event like that, just superb.

 

[intoronto 6,410]

 

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

4 hours ago, intoronto said:

 

 

Didn't know Duncan Mackay had fallen from a pretty serious journalist to throwing around meme-level stuff  

 

Seems like a last year kind of thing mostly? Judging by the results where the points are coming from, most of which are from last year. Plus most of the top ranked athletes there weren't in the Olympics I think. Doesn't exactly look like the 'main' world ranking  

Edited September 9, 2024 by heywoodu

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

Many world ranking systems have the issue of more appearances = more points or in this case, all continental championships having the same point value regardless of talent within the continent.

[Laraja 1,498]

16 hours ago, intoronto said:

 

 

That's completely ridiculous, and another reason to get rid of it from Olympics.

 

But, to be fair, the WDSF Breaking rankings were quite precise during Olympic Qualification. They weren't clear about how the quota would be given, but imo, they find a good way to distribute the points.

[NearPup 3,496]

9 hours ago, Laraja said:

That's completely ridiculous, and another reason to get rid of it from Olympics.

 

But, to be fair, the WDSF Breaking rankings were quite precise during Olympic Qualification. They weren't clear about how the quota would be given, but imo, they find a good way to distribute the points.

I actually think the WDSF did a reasonably good job running the Olympic event (like whatever people think of breaking, the actual breaking competition was well run).

 

But there is definitively a lot of incompetence when it comes to how that federation runs breaking in general. Which is why I think you see most athletes not engage with WDSF events outside of when they had to qualify for the Olympics.

[heywoodu 16,004]

18 hours ago, Laraja said:

That's completely ridiculous, and another reason to get rid of it from Olympics.

If flawed ranking systems are a reason to kick a sport out of the Olympics, we'd lose more sports, like alpine skiing  

[PHI2019 309]

Australian breaker Raygun is currently ranked number one in the world — the World DanceSport Federation has explained why

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/raygun-ranked-number-one-in-the-world-explainer/104335934?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf274595113&utm_campaign=abc_grandstand&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf274595113=1&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR14ireGWTfbhHBmzbIIXH7gW3jPULyMBOUWsCUJFQ2pV0A1m_yXfaIH3oc_aem_aQ5M9mCSjzM104BXKeHhqw

 

Ranked number one in the world on the basis of her winning the Oceania Continental Championship 

[PHI2019 309]

'Raygun' retires from breaking after Paris 2024 Olympic Games backlash

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/raygun-retires-from-breaking-after-olympic-backlash/104571362?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf275335925&utm_campaign=abc_grandstand&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf275335925=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawGY-QtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbe6ijh-yXW42xW9HKhTcAnaw8oNFJXGZ4d5CULHnEigQyOFQ6KFFESsqg_aem_A2HqQ31MptR5LQPoJclXxg

[Grassmarket 4,030]

2 hours ago, PHI2019 said:

'Raygun' retires from breaking after Paris 2024 Olympic Games backlash

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/raygun-retires-from-breaking-after-olympic-backlash/104571362?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf275335925&utm_campaign=abc_grandstand&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf275335925=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawGY-QtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbe6ijh-yXW42xW9HKhTcAnaw8oNFJXGZ4d5CULHnEigQyOFQ6KFFESsqg_aem_A2HqQ31MptR5LQPoJclXxg

Has only retired from Competition though.  Will still be available for Gala Events like The Oscars, Superbowl Half Time Shows, that sort of thing.