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The story of how the Australian women’s breakdancer, Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, who scored a literal 0 in the Olympics is fascinating. How did she get there?
TLDR: The Olympics outsourced the breakdancing qualifications to a third party called the WorldDance Sport Federation who didn’t know anything about breakdancing, they wanted to do Ballroom Dancing. The Olympics said NO to Ballroom, so WorldDance said FINE we’ll oversee Breakdancing instead.
WorldDance didn’t know anything about Breakdancing so THEY outsourced to other smaller orgs local to the country, in the case of Australia, an organization called the Australian Breaking Association which was FOUNDED by Raygun and her husband. Who advised them to partner with this org? Rachael Gunn.
Starting to see it?
The Australian Breaking Association (AusBreak) runs a competition every year that only has 10-15 women show up, and obviously Rachael “wins” this and her husband becomes the team coach.
Basically, Rachael elects herself as the Australian Olympic breakdancing rep, and the rest history.
A nice fat 0 for the history books.
Gewusst wie!
TLDR: The Olympics outsourced the breakdancing qualifications to a third party called the WorldDance Sport Federation who didn’t know anything about breakdancing, they wanted to do Ballroom Dancing. The Olympics said NO to Ballroom, so WorldDance said FINE we’ll oversee Breakdancing instead.
WorldDance didn’t know anything about Breakdancing so THEY outsourced to other smaller orgs local to the country, in the case of Australia, an organization called the Australian Breaking Association which was FOUNDED by Raygun and her husband. Who advised them to partner with this org? Rachael Gunn.
Starting to see it?
The Australian Breaking Association (AusBreak) runs a competition every year that only has 10-15 women show up, and obviously Rachael “wins” this and her husband becomes the team coach.
Basically, Rachael elects herself as the Australian Olympic breakdancing rep, and the rest history.
A nice fat 0 for the history books.
Gewusst wie!
