The Olympics debuted a new sport in Paris, 'breaking', and Australia's entrant became the laughing stock of the world after a brutal debut.
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00:00Now, Luke, we also saw braking make its debut at the Olympics.
00:04How did it all go?
00:07Yeah, look, a bunch of confused faces, I think,
00:10trying to make sense of what was going on.
00:12It's not gone down, perhaps,
00:14as the International Olympic Committee would have liked.
00:16They've introduced a whole bunch of alternative sports
00:19over the course of the last Olympic cycle.
00:20So we're talking skateboarding, BMX, the rock climbing.
00:24All have been pretty solid inclusions
00:27and have stood the test of time
00:29and now being accepted amongst the Olympic family.
00:32Braking's already been dumped from the schedule
00:34for Los Angeles in four years' time.
00:35So I don't think we'll be seeing that again any time soon.
00:37We had that woman there, 36-year-old Rachel Gunn,
00:40or B-Girl Ray Gunn, as they like to be called.
00:43And she had three battles in the qualifying round.
00:45They're not called match-ups or anything like that.
00:47They're called battles.
00:48And scored zeros in all three of her battles.
00:52So short-lived time in the spotlight for Ray Gunn,
00:55but she did her best, and that's all that matters.
00:57Wearing the green and gold,
00:59she has come in for a lot of mocking online
01:02on social media as well.
01:03So that is probably the sad side of this whole story,
01:07while we are also trying to work out our break dancing
01:10in terms of what we make of it, what we think of it.
01:13Does it belong at the Olympic level?
01:15There is a human at the middle of it as well in Ray Gunn.
01:18So the social media stuff,
01:20hopefully she doesn't see much of that going on.