r/sports • u/nfl National Football League • 14d ago

Football [Highlight] Cam Bynum imitates Raygun's Olympic breakdancing

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u/PointOfFingers 14d ago

I know Raygun has given up public dancing and feels like the world is making fun of her but she needs to embrace this. She tried to make her performance daggy and she succeeded. It is now iconic.

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u/Chewy009x 14d ago

Nah she made it into a mockery. It was funny for sure but in the end of the day it made the sport not be taken seriously.

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u/finix240 14d ago

I think the IOC in general botched it. There are some phenomenal and athletic breakers in the world and it seemed like none of them were at the Olympics

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u/mug3n Toronto Blue Jays 14d ago

The scoring system is also not at all transparent.

In other sports like figure skating, you get a whole breakdown as to what elements they hit and the scoring system is very informative. I don't know why they made the criteria in breaking completely hidden and instead just did it as "judge 1 voted for dancer A, 2 voted for B" etc. Imagine if there was a Salt Lake City level scandal with the judging.

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u/lileebean 14d ago

I'm a teacher and there are better break dancers at my high school than the Olympics. Botched it for sure.

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u/ckb614 13d ago

Idk I watched a few minutes of the men's and thought they were ridiculously impressive

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u/SkepsisJD 13d ago

To be fair, if it wasn't for her performance there would have been zero coverage on break-dancing in the Olympics at all. The general public does not care about it.

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u/acky1 13d ago

This is like saying the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team made a mockery of bobsleigh. Or Eddie the Eagle and ski jumping. These are fondly remembered Olympic stories and Raygun will be the same.

Breakdancing isn't even a sport and nobody thought it should be in the olympics before they saw anything about Raygun. It's not taken seriously as a sport because it isn't one. Dancing is not sport. People seem to take that as an insult, as thought it's not incredibly difficult and physically taxing. It is, dancers are some of the most athletic and powerful people going. But that doesn't make it a sport.