{"id":370241,"date":"2024-02-23T22:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=370241"},"modified":"2024-02-24T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:03:16","slug":"aussie-olympic-breakdancer-fires-message-at-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=370241","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Olympic breakdancer fires message at critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian breakdancer set to \ufeffbust out moves at the Paris Olympics<\/a> has fired a message at the critics, urging them to watch a live performance and questioning how many sports produce new skills as often as breaking.<\/p>\n

Rachael Gunn<\/a>, who goes by "Raygun", and 16-year-old Jeff Dunne, whose nickname is "J-Attack", were announced on the Australian Olympic<\/a> team in Sydney on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Gunn, a 36-year-old who has a PhD and is a university lecturer, shot a message at the haters, those on social media and elsewhere, in an interview with Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

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"What would I say to those people? Just wait and watch it, and then tell me what you think. I think they would be impressed by it," Gunn said.<\/p>\n

"I see it happen all the time.\ufeff People kind of dismiss it, and then they see a live performance of breaking, or they see some footage of breaking, and I see their face actually go, 'Woah, I didn't realise that was breaking. I didn't realise it involved that. Wow, that's really cool. Oh my gosh, that's going to be epic at the Olympics'.<\/p>\n

"There have been a lot of people at many events I've done that go through that same process. Initially, when I arrive they're a bit like, 'Ah, yeah, OK, here's the breaker', but then by the end … they are genuinely excited.<\/p>\n

\"Rachael<\/p>\n

"So, just wait and watch it, and tell me what you think."<\/p>\n

Breaking will make its Olympic debut in Paris, but it's been snubbed for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.\ufeff<\/p>\n

At Paris' Concorde Urban Park across August 9 and 10, 16 "b-boys" and 16 "b-girls" will square off.<\/p>\n

Gunn and Dunne qualified by winning the Oceania \ufeffqualifying event in October last year.<\/p>\n

\"Jeff<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI'm amazed that whenever I go to a competition I see something new," Gunn said.<\/p>\n

"Every time I go to a world-level competition … something surprises me, and I don't know how many sports have that record. Someone just does something completely unexpected.<\/p>\n

"They'll be doing a combination that you might be familiar with, and then suddenly they'll do a flip, or they'll do a spin, or they'll do a completely new move that you've never seen before, or that you didn't think was possible, and the whole crowd goes nuts."<\/p>\n

Gunn hammered home her point regarding skills in breaking versus other sports.<\/p>\n

"The mastery\ufeff of the diversity of movement I think is quite unusual, compared to a lot of the other sports that are out there, where they're really becoming specialists of a specific skill or a specific movement," Gunn said.<\/p>\n

"With breaking\ufeff there's so many different types of movement that you need to master: different types of strength, explosiveness, control. So there's a huge level of athleticism involved."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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