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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rachael Gunn, somehow Australia put her on the Olympic team and she sucked, made a fool of everyone, scored zero points on all three dance offs, and demonstrated a very low level of skill, talent and creativity.

How did this happen?  Why did it happen?[/quote]

Because nobody cared about Olympic break dancing.  Or fish out of water imitations.[/quote]

Raygun won the qualifying event for the Oceania region which saw only 15 women competing in Sydney.  It's expensive to get to Sydney even from most other cities in Australia, not to mention the Pacific Islands or New Zealand.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gl34v4r98o

ccording to Wepiha, Gunn's victory in qualifying reflects the size of the “tiny” breaking scene in Australia, and the even tinier public and government support for it.
"I mean, we had to actually get people out of retirement to make up the numbers," he said.
"That's how small the scene is."
Others says there were rules which may have made a small talent pool even shallower – like the requirement that potential qualifiers be a member of AUSBreaking and that they have a valid passport, in line with rules put forward by the World Dance Sport Federation.
AUSBreaking did not respond to the BBC’s queries about Raygun’s selection, the financial support it receives or how it seeks out the country’s best breaking talent.
But Steve Gow, the group’s secretary and long-time b-boy Stevie G, tells the BBC the size and isolation of Australia inhibits the growth and development of the scene.

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