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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GIF of the breakdancing lady at the olympics with the caption "Me explaining mass spectrometry"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I think the score of 0 is fair, because imo her Olympics performance was straight up trolling. If you watch any of her previous performances (like her Olympic qualifiers) she's actually pretty decent. Comparing those to what she did at the Olympics honestly felt like BM to the entire artform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And your comment is why I lost respect for those judges who probably agree with you.

You're letting her previous performances color your opinion of what should be a fair and unbiased judging of this one performance and this one category in a vacuum. It's originality, she was more original in her performance than a lot of other breakers, regardless of her skill (which is a separate category they rate on). I would have hoped she would have scored at least a couple of points there and just 0s on all the other categories.

I agree with your BM comment though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Mm, you're not wrong about the originality, especially considering it's given equal weight with the other four categories (the scoring is another issue here I could go on about). I guess in the judges eyes her "original" moves didn't have anything to do with breaking (like the T-rex thing? That was odd...), so it was irrelevant to the judgement.

I can only speak for my own interpretations though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But it is not about originality.

People watch the Olympics to see peak humans perform amazing feats of athleticism. It is a competition of the ages spread over all countries.

If someone performs something every regular person would be capable of, especially on purpose, it mocks the sport and the Olympic competition in general.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sorry to break it to you but it factually IS about originality. That's one of the categories the judges for this sport specifically rate on according to the olympics, or should at least, it's obvious they didn't in this instance.

Here's some sites that specify originality is one of their 5 scoring categories.