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9 September, 2024
Rachael Gunn performs her infamous kangaroo hop as part of her routine at the Paris Olympics. Photo: TNS
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Ridicule proves too much for Aussie Olympian Gunn, who says she’s retiring

Rachael Gunn’s display in Paris, which included rolling on the floor, sparked conspiracy theories over how she had managed to qualify.

Olympics

Australia’s ‘Raygun’ says sorry to breakdancing community for Olympic backlash

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Australia

My Take | Australia’s Raygun Olympic saga simmers over demand for answers from the top

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Breaker Raygun calls abuse ‘devastating’ as petition calling for probe is pulled

The Australian says ‘I gave my all’ for the Olympics but did not realise it would ‘open the door to so much hate’ and asks for privacy.

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Rachael Gunn’s routine at the Olympics, which included kangaroo-mimicking moves in an Australia-logoed tracksuit, has been parodied worldwide. Photo: TNS
Australia

Australian Olympic body condemns call for apology from breakdancer Raygun

Rachael Gunn’s zero-point performance at the Games has cast the spotlight on her qualifying process.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Australian Olympic body hits out at criticism of controversial breaker ‘Raygun’

The committee has in particular called for the withdrawal of an anonymous online petition that it says is ‘vexatious, misleading and bullying’.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Breaking community defends B-Girl Raygun, hopes for return to Olympic programme

The Australian was just trying to be original, says head judge, while the governing body has offered the professor its ‘safeguarding officer’.

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Australia’s Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun, competes in the breaking dance round robin at the Paris Olympics, where she scored zero points. Photo: AFP
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Is Tom Cruise in the Paris Olympics closing ceremony? Here’s what we know

The Games farewell is expected to be a more traditional affair than the joyful and impertinent opening ceremony, which took place on the Seine.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

B-Boys and B-Girls make Olympic debut as breakdancing comes to Paris

The global reach of breakdancing, or breaking, will be on display as the sport joins the Games for the first time.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Trailblazing breakdancer Fukushima, 40, on cusp of fulfilling Olympic dream

If the former kindergarten qualifies for Paris, it would be her first – and probably last – chance to win gold in the sport, which is making its Olympics debut.

Japan’s Ayumi Fukushima in the women’s breaking final at the Olympic qualifier series in Shanghai this week. Photo: Kyodo
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Breakdancer inspired by Justin Timberlake aiming for gold as event debuts in Paris

Britain’s Kid Karam is using inspiration from his breaking community to qualify for the sport’s Olympics debut in Paris.

British breaker Karam Singh hopes to claim one of the 10 Paris Olympics qualifying spots available at events in Shanghai and Budapest starting in May. Photo: Reuters
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong plumber turns to coaching after Paris Olympics dream dashed

Breakdancer Cheung Cheuk-man won’t make it to the Games this summer, and at 30 is turning his attention to the next stage of his involvement with the sport.

Thailand

Thai breakdancer seeks hair growth sponsorship as headspins make him bald

Kantapon Rodsaart, known as T-Flow, is 29 and says he has thin hair and a ‘headspin hole’ bald spot.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong to host final round of Paris Olympics qualifying for breaking

More than 400 athletes expected to descend on city for seventh stop in the Breaking For Gold World Series, which begins on Friday in Japan.

Sze Ka-yam, also known as B-Boy C Plus, is leading Hong Kong’s squad for the first stop of the Breaking for Gold World Series. Photo: Handout
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Red Bull’s Phil Wizard to headline Hong Kong breaking event

The Under the Lions Rock competition will be held in Tsuen Wan in March and is expected to attract 200 athletes from around the world.

Red Bull athlete Phil Kim, also known as B-Boy Phil Wizard, poses for a picture in Vancouver. Photo: Red Bull
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong bidding to host 2 breakdancing qualifiers for Paris Olympics

City’s athletes will have chance to battle it out for place at Games if bid to host Olympic Qualifier Series event is successful.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris 2024 breakdancing contenders emerge as B-Boys and B-Girls eye Games debut

Becoming an Olympic sport divided a community but race is on to qualify for the Games by accumulating points in sanctioned competitions.

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Top Hong Kong breakdancer urges government to increase funding in Olympics bid

Sze Ka-yam – better known as B-Boy C Plus – calls on officials to establish a base for Hong Kong’s squad so they can train together and share ideas.

B-Boy C Plus ranked first in the Hong Kong Grand Slam’s B-Boys Aged 18 and above. Photo: Olympian City
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Breakdancing holds firm to its roots but readies for Paris Olympic stage

Paris 2024 will mark the culmination of breaking’s journey from a recreation room party in the Bronx 49 years ago to an international phenomenon.

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Asian Breakdancing Championships in Hong Kong cancelled, ‘0+3’ policy ‘no help’

Governing body had warned no one would come to compete under the old ‘3+4’ quarantine policy, and new ‘0+3’ rule still hampers preparation for November 5 event.

Hong Kong breaking athletes seek funding boost ahead of Paris 2024 Olympics

Chairman of the city’s dance sport association said Hong Kong’s breaking athletes need to be exposed to more international competition if they are to improve.

Wong Chiu-wai, known as Lady Banan, demonstrates at Olympian City 2. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Chinese B-Girl Liu Qingyi wants ‘glory for my country’ after world title win

Liu Qingyi storms through a field of competitors from some 50 countries worldwide to claim title at The World Battle, says she hopes ‘to win glory’ for China at Paris Olympics.

Liu Qingyi in full flight during The World Battle. Photo: The World Battle
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Chinese teen Liu Qingyi wins world’s top breaking competition

Liu Qingyi, a 16-year-old from China’s Henan Province, won the global breaking tournament Outbreak Europe in Slovakia on Sunday, the first Chinese B-Girl to win a world breaking championship.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong breakdancers hope Olympic dream becomes reality

Hong Kong breakdancers kicked off the Road to Paris Olympic campaign on Sunday at a packed Olympian City, hoping to raise public awareness and attract new blood to their fast-growing sport.

Aspiring Olympic breakdancers get shot at Hong Kong team qualification

A growing number of the city’s professional breaking athletes will begin their Olympic journey on June 12 in the opening round of Hong Kong team qualifiers.

Hong Kong breaking athletes are aiming for Olympic recognition. Photo: AKA.APEKAY
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Japan’s breakers show Hong Kong Bboys and Bgirls road map to Paris Olympics

Pioneers in Japanese breakdancing are inspiring Hong Kong counterparts as they prepare for breaking’s Olympic debut, when medals matter but respect means more.

Hong Kong DanceSport Association hosts an event at West Kowloon Cultural District to promote breaking. Photo: Dickson Lee
IOC

‘Robots can never replace us’ – Korean breakdancers look beyond the Olympics

With increasing mainstream presence, and management agencies and professional leagues in the works, Korean breaking is entering a new era.

IOC

Hong Kong breakdancers plea for 2024 Olympics backing

‘You could argue we’ve already lost the moment we step on to the international stage,’ says city’s number one women’s breakdancer Chan Ka-yi, also known as Bgirl Lady Little.

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