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.
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I watched the Oceania qualifying and somehow she really did appear to be the best one there which is wild.
Australia was one of the first qualifiers at the very start of the event. The meme would have been someone else if they were earlier. The qualifing rounds obvs had the worst talent.
Man, respectfully, it was objectively bad. All of it. Go watch an actual street breakdance competition
It’s insane the shit the pull off. 10 year olds are doing cooler and harder shit than these Olympians pulled off lol
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?”
Elizabeth Swaney. - look her up 2018 Olympics
Just saying going to the Olympics is pretty special and amazing experience once in a lifetime. I probably couldn’t see myself going and making a fool of myself but people have done dumb stuff for a lot less.
I agree. Some of those girls were amazing! And clearly had the time of their lives. I enjoyed. Raygun will be the gift that keeps on giving. The jokes, memes.
Fr the gold medal dance off last night was fucking lit!
It was cringe to watch
I am loving the breaking! I do however think the judging criteria needs to be tweaked or more clear? I’m not sure how India barely qualified and was behind Raygun…she should of won a medal. Hats off to all of these amazingly talented dancers and their incredible athleticism, so fun to watch.
I really agree. we don’t laugh or make a meme of the persons that don’t qualify to the final In the other sports, sure the first ones were not awesome but the finalists really were. I also loved the atmosphere they were positive.
that shit was the funniest thing I have seen since the little black guy was handed the tiny suit.
she was doing the Curly Shuffle running on the floor man.
Wanted to answer your follow-up that one of the songs was Superstar Part Zero by K-OS. Absolute jam from a Canadian Rapper.