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Break Dancing May Have Seen Its Last Olympic Games With Los Angeles 2028 Leaving The Event Out
Canada won a gold medal. Australia became a meme. At times, even the commentators weren't sure what to say.
Love it or LOL it, it's safe to say breaking's debut made its mark at the Paris Olympics, although it may never return. Breaking — known to many as break dancing — is not on the program for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Yet it's become one of the most talked-about events.
Much of the buzz comes courtesy of Vancouver's Philip Kim, a.k.a. Phil Wizard, who captured gold after dominating his final battle with host-country favourite Danis Civil (Dany Dann) of France.
But it's also in no small part thanks to the performance of an Australian b-girl known as Raygun who did a "kangaroo dance" and scored zero points but became a viral sensation.
Despite some misinformation circulating online, the decision not to include breaking in the 2028 Games was made long before Raygun's performance.
Raygun, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, is a 36-year-old college professor. After her performance on Friday, Gunn posted on Instagram: "Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you."
The comments on her post were largely unsupportive.
"I know a lot of people will discourage you but please listen to them," wrote Instagram user "preacherz_son," in a comment with 30,000 likes.
Phil "Wizard" Kim popped and locked his way to a historic gold medal in Paris
Breakers look to capture — and keep — the world's attention at Olympics
She defended her moves again on Saturday, telling the Independent that she tried to be "new, different and creative" because she couldn't compete athletically with her younger rivals.
On Sunday, the head judge of the breaking competition said Gunn was just trying to be original.
"Breaking is all about originality and bringing something new to the table and representing your country or region," head judge Martin Gilian — known as MGbility — said at a news conference. "This is exactly what Raygun was doing. She got inspired by her surroundings, which in this case, for example, was a kangaroo."
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Canada won a gold medal. Australia became a meme. At times, even the commentators weren't sure what to say.
Love it or LOL it, it's safe to say breaking's debut made its mark at the Paris Olympics, although it may never return. Breaking — known to many as break dancing — is not on the program for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Yet it's become one of the most talked-about events.
Much of the buzz comes courtesy of Vancouver's Philip Kim, a.k.a. Phil Wizard, who captured gold after dominating his final battle with host-country favourite Danis Civil (Dany Dann) of France.
But it's also in no small part thanks to the performance of an Australian b-girl known as Raygun who did a "kangaroo dance" and scored zero points but became a viral sensation.
Despite some misinformation circulating online, the decision not to include breaking in the 2028 Games was made long before Raygun's performance.
Raygun, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, is a 36-year-old college professor. After her performance on Friday, Gunn posted on Instagram: "Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you."
The comments on her post were largely unsupportive.
"I know a lot of people will discourage you but please listen to them," wrote Instagram user "preacherz_son," in a comment with 30,000 likes.
Phil "Wizard" Kim popped and locked his way to a historic gold medal in Paris
Breakers look to capture — and keep — the world's attention at Olympics
She defended her moves again on Saturday, telling the Independent that she tried to be "new, different and creative" because she couldn't compete athletically with her younger rivals.
On Sunday, the head judge of the breaking competition said Gunn was just trying to be original.
"Breaking is all about originality and bringing something new to the table and representing your country or region," head judge Martin Gilian — known as MGbility — said at a news conference. "This is exactly what Raygun was doing. She got inspired by her surroundings, which in this case, for example, was a kangaroo."
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