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 document 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 below intense public scrutiny not only for its rankings, however its “credibility”, exterior as a voice for the game.
In Tuesday’s assertion the WDSF tried to handle criticisms which were 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 presently stand ought to be interpreted along side outcomes from latest international breaking competitions for a extra correct reflection of the worldwide aggressive panorama,” the assertion added.
The weeks-long saga over Raygun’s efficiency has break up opinion throughout the breakdancing neighborhood, with some throwing their help 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 is just not 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 go well with 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 benefit” with the breaking neighborhood.
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.
They’d “no incentive” or “want” to proceed taking part in WDSF occasions post-Paris “as a result of they are not cultural occasions – they’re not satisfying”, he added.