Australian "B Girl Raygun" scores 0 points in three Olympic competitions

[odanny]

I love it, this is the female "Eddie the Eagle", I hope she can make a buck or two from it.

By breaking "standards", she is an oldster at 36. You go girl!

 

[1srelluc]

She seems....Fun.

Breakdancing as a sport of any kind should be poked fun at.

 

[Blaster]

I'd bang her.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I love it, this is the female "Eddie the Eagle", I hope she can make a buck or two from it.

By breaking "standards", she is an oldster at 36. You go girl!

It was a smart move, she knew she had no chance at a medal and this got people talking about her. She is getting more press than the winners.

 

[Hellokitty]

How is breaking dancing a sport or game? Also who won?

 

[jotathought]

I love it, this is the female "Eddie the Eagle", I hope she can make a buck or two from it.

By breaking "standards", she is an oldster at 36. You go girl!

Just a washed-up "athlete" doing a routine that is so 1984, and she wasn't even alive then.

Some of the Olympic sports are just stupid .. break dancing? Really? It's as bad as a trampoline gold medalist.

 

[marvin martian]

I love it, this is the female "Eddie the Eagle", I hope she can make a buck or two from it.

By breaking "standards", she is an oldster at 36. You go girl!

This comes off as making fun of a person who's clearly mentally disabled.

 

[odanny]

How is breaking dancing a sport or game? Also who won?

The question isn't so much "how is it a sport" any more than tumbling is a sport, the bigger question is how is it judged? Tumbling has some sensible guidelines for scoring, but break dancing seems very arbitrary for scoring.

 

[luiza]

I think you miss a key point .
She is a University lecturer with a Ph D in Cultural Studies .

So .
Either with a brilliant sense of humour and the absurd .
OR, more likely , a Mutant Brained Lefty .

 

[odanny]

When a white guy wins this, we are breaking cultural barriers.

 

[odanny]

USA! USA!

 

[Muhammed]

Pssst... Raygun... It's electric boogaloo, not electric kangaroo.

 

[Roy C]

This comes off as making fun of a person who's clearly mentally disabled.

Didn't American Idol and other cornball replicas make a living on mocking the disabled?

 

[odanny]

This comes off as making fun of a person who's clearly mentally disabled.

I never made fun of you, at least on this thread.

 

[Alan Stallion]

How is breaking dancing a sport or game? Also who won?

I'll answer part 2:

of the B-Girls
GOLD - Ami (Ami Yuasa) of Japan
SILVER - Nicka (Dominika Banevic) of Lithuania
BRONZE - 671 (Liu Qingyi) of China

I thought Nicka was adorable and fun. I thought she might have won it, but I'm too much of a novice I guess as far as judging such a competition. It would have been Lithuania's first-ever GOLD if she had garnered the judges' favor.

of the B-Boys
GOLD - Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) of Canada
SILVER - Dany Dann (Danis Civil) of France
BRONZE - Victor (Victor Montalvo) of the United States

With Dany being the oldest of the quarterfinals competitors (age 36), and he was the home-county favorite, there was a good energy about him.

 

[Muhammed]

I must admit that Raygun's artistic allusion to her fellow Aussie Angus Young was cute.

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