A current confirmed report states that Australian breakdancer Raygun has retired from the game, professionally talking, after the acute backlash she acquired for her efficiency at this 12 months’s Olympics.
Raygun aka Rachael Gunn introduced her determination whereas showing on the Jimmy & Nath Present in her native brazil, the place she mentioned she’ll not be competing in future competitions.
When requested if she’ll return for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, Raygun replied with a laughin “No!” She added, “I nonetheless break, however I don’t compete. I’m not going to compete anymore, no.”
Gunn admitted that she was planning to proceed competing, however after the Olympics “that appears a extremely troublesome factor for me to do now, to strategy a battle […] the extent of scrutiny that can be there. I nonetheless dance and I nonetheless break, however that’s in my front room with my associate,” she joked.
Raygun’s Olympic routine didn’t rating a single level, which was highlighted by bouncing on her toes like a kangaroo, resulting in a flood of jokes and memes on-line.
“I didn’t like that. It’s so many nice breakdancers that I don’t know why they’d this specific particular person doing that,” mentioned superproducer Dr. Dre throughout an Leisure Tonight interview. “It was humorous, I received some laughs out of it, however what the fuck? […] There are unbelievable breakdancers out proper now; I don’t know the way that occurred.”
