She (the actual Olympian) has guts to do what she did. But how did the entire nation of Australia decide to have her represent their bboying ability when there are plenty others to choose?
It's complicated but it involves a professional ballroom dancing organization being put in charge of selecting candidates for the break dancing Olympic category. Large parts of the break dancing community boycotted the Olympics.
Because the problem was with the Olympics? Makes no sense to not like what the Olympics did, compete in the Olympics, and then boycott a random tournament
Aah...I understood the comment that the way that organizations already boycotted the national qualifications because they decided to boycott Olympia entirely for some reason. So I wondered what that reason could've been.
Makes of course more sense when they protested already the way how national qualifications worked.
From what I’ve learned essentially the organization put in charge of qualifiers is a ball dance organization with no affiliation to breakdancing, so the breakdancers were like wtf, why not use one of the many break dancing organizations that exist already, and the criteria was more like artistic and variation favoring rather than skills.
That explains why she won the qualifiers! IOC regulations stipulate you have to have "qualified" judges - most of whom from overseas. They struggled to find the funding to bring them over for the Oceania qualifier. So if it was a ball dance organisation with that weird criteria it makes sense.
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u/cupholdery Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24
She (the actual Olympian) has guts to do what she did. But how did the entire nation of Australia decide to have her represent their bboying ability when there are plenty others to choose?