Raygun, an Australian breakdancer, has resigned from the sport professionally after receiving widespread criticism for her performance at this year’s Olympics.
Raygun (actual name Rachael Gunn) made her decision during an appearance on the Jimmy & Nath Show in her home nation, where she ruled out competing in future events.
When asked if she will return for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles (which will not have breakdancing), Raygun laughed and said, “No!”
She continued: “I still break, but I don’t compete. I am not going to compete anymore, no.”
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The 37-year-old, who is a full-time lecturer at a university in Sydney, revealed that she was intending to continue competing after the Olympics, but “that seems a really difficult thing for me to do now, to approach a battle […] the level of scrutiny that will be there.”
“I still dance and I still break, but that’s in my living room with my partner,” she told me.
Raygun rose to global prominence last summer after doing a variety of strange dance routines at the Olympics’ first breakdancing competition in Paris.
Her unconventional act, which failed to gain a single point, featured waving her arms around, thrashing on the floor, and even bouncing on her feet like a kangaroo, sparking an outpouring of comments and memes online.
Beyond the delight and bemusement of viewers all over the world, Gunn was chastised by members of the breakdancing community and even important Hip Hop personalities such as Dr. Dre.
“I didn’t like it. “There are so many great breakdancers, I’m not sure why they had this particular person doing that,” the N.W.A veteran stated in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“It was entertaining, and I laughed a few times, but what the fuck? […] There are fantastic breakdancers out right now; I’m not sure how it happened.”
Raygunn expressed on the Jimmy & Nath Show that the criticism was bizarre and difficult to understand. But I try to focus on the good, and that’s what gets me through.
“People have said, ‘You have inspired me to go out there and do something that I’ve been too shy to do.'” You’ve given joy and laughter; we’re very proud of you. And just really frickin’ lovely things that people have written. That’s what I hang onto.”
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