Rachael Gunn stays the primary feminine breakdancer on the planet, regardless of a controversial Olympic efficiency for Workforce Australia that divided the web and left her with a rating of zero.
Responding to questions on its rankings, the game’s governing physique has issued an announcement explaining its methodology to “handle issues” and “present readability”.
It stated every athlete was assessed primarily based on their prime 4 performances within the final 12 months and that Olympic occasions, together with qualifiers, had been excluded.
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The 37-year-old college lecture failed to attain any factors in all three of her competitors rounds in Paris, with a routine that included unorthodox strikes, such because the sprinkler and the kangaroo hop.
“The file is there. However something can occur in a battle,” she stated in her first sit down interview final week, when requested about her polarising efficiency.
The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) has additionally come beneath intense public scrutiny not only for its rankings, however its “credibility” as a voice for the game.
In Tuesday’s assertion the WDSF tried to deal with criticisms which have been swirling on-line over the transparency of its rankings head on.
It defined that “rating occasions” had deliberately not been held between the tip of 2023 and the beginning of the Olympics, to permit athletes to “focus solely” on the Video games.
And that doing so, had created a set of “distinctive circumstances” which meant that some athletes had been ranked primarily based solely on a single occasion.
“The world rankings as they at the moment stand ought to be interpreted together with outcomes from latest world breaking competitions for a extra correct reflection of the worldwide aggressive panorama,” the assertion added.
The weeks-long saga over Raygun’s efficiency has split opinion throughout the breakdancing group, with some throwing their support behind the embattled athlete, whereas others have publicly accused her of creating a mockery of the game.
It has additionally sparked questions over whether or not breaking – which debuted in Paris however will not be on the programme for the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles – ought to have ever been included within the Olympics, because of the natural nature of the style, which does not essentially swimsuit organised competitors.
In an interview with the Related Press, vice-president of Breaking for Gold USA Zack Slusser stated the WDSF did not have “any actual advantage” with the breaking group.
The WDSF had did not “organise occasions by their measure that will contribute to creating an correct world rating”, Mr Slusser stated.
Breakers had been solely acting at WDSF organised occasions to safe factors to qualify for the Olympics, he stated.
That they had “no incentive” or “want” to proceed collaborating in WDSF occasions post-Paris “as a result of they don’t seem to be cultural occasions – they’re not pleasurable”, he added.
