All day I saw the same few vids of the b-girls who were not able to qualify to the medal round, like the Australian. I don’t know much about breaking, so later in the evening I watched the finals. Let me say they those dancers were VERY talented and it was a world of difference than qualifying joke videos. People like 671, India, and Nicka were amazing. Plus they seemed to be having fun and even playing around with each other.

I just think the earlier videos being promoted around Reddit and the web are being disingenuous to the obviously more talented finalists. I mean, we don’t see people laughing at videos of the gymnasts who didn’t qualify or track athletes that lost in the first heat. We see the vids of the best vs the best, which is the point of the Olympics.

Edit: as a side note, if anyone has the name of the artists/songs being used during the final 8 dancers performances, I would appreciate it. The announcers made it seem like they were common jams, but heck if I heard them. I would like to find them though.

  • BeahnerBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I only recall one dancers routine going crazy laughable viral, Raygun. And while that might be lumped onto by those that don’t get Breaking and don’t want it to be an Olympic sport, they were going to gripe anyway.

    The Raygun routine was less an indictment of Breaking and more of a “how the hell did she even get to this level?” There’s a reason why a more established sport doesn’t go viral when a participant doesn’t qualify….Im don’t believe I remember a participant coming up in any other sport that was that quality of not even capable of this level.

    But individual bad efforts in other sports have gone viral too, like the diver who tuck flopped a dive and scored 0.

    TL;DR: if there was no Raygun those that don’t get or hate Breaking would still be griping. But Raygun was epic levels of “how the hell did this competitor get here?”