• Nangijala@feddit.dk
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      Am I misremembering or did they cancel that category after her performance? I have a vague memory that breakdancing had only recently been accepted as a discipline and then she did that and they decided to remove the discipline again…? Might have been a fever hallucination after I saw her performance. Wishful thinking, probably.

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      I just don’t understand how this happened. Did no one else on the Australian team see her dance and be like ???

      I saw the Australian guy’s dance and he at the very least knew what he was doing.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Gunn#Early_career

        She is coached by her husband, Samuel Free,[10] and says that she trains three to four hours a day.[11] Gunn ranked second in the Australian Open B-girl Ranking in 2022[12] and topped the ranking in 2023 in Australia[13] as well as winning or coming in the top three at many Australian breaking events in the previous five to ten years.[14] She represented Australia at the World Breaking Championships in Paris (2021), Seoul (2022), and Leuven (2023).[7][3] In 2023, she won the Oceania Breaking Championships, defeating Molly Chapman (“Holy Molly”) in the final,[15] and secured her spot in the 2024 Summer Olympics according to the qualifying rules.[3][4]

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          I just don’t understand the resume compared to what she presented in the olympics. It just seems like she would have a pretty good understanding of the sport, but her performance showed a lack of a lot of things.