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Yeah, I don't know enough about breakdancing to really weigh in, but the criticism seemed overblown to me. She was maybe not as good as the other competitors, but not quite to the degree of "should be ridiculed into never competing again". Then again, even if it would have been the worst performance I saw, it wouldn't warrant that level of ridicule really. That's just not cool.
She didn't deserve the hate for her performance, but thankfully it turns out she's a complete asshat who got there because of nepotism, and she is actively erasing other styles from being represented because her federation is either racist or too full of itself to show other form of art besides the one her husband invented.
She deserved the scorn.
No, she didn't. There was ONE video that was specifically edited to make her look bad. If you watch the full performance, it's not great, but it's absolutely not worth the backlash it got. It was HUGELY overblown.
I'm specifically talking about her infamouse Olympic performance here. I have no idea about the nepotism/racism stuff. All I'm saying is the performance itself wasn't bad enough to warrant the ridiculous response it got.