Raygun quits competitive breakdancing after Olympic performance mocked

An Australian Olympian, whose breakdancing regular astatine the Paris Games went viral, says she volition nary longer compete.

Rachael Gunn known competitively arsenic 'Raygun', says her nonrecreational vocation is over.

The 37-year-old Sydney assemblage lecturer failed to get connected the scoreboard successful each 3 of her contention rounds successful August.

Her routines astatine the Olympics included unorthodox moves specified arsenic a "kangaroo" dance.

She later apologised and said she was "very sorry" for the backlash, but suggested overmuch of the disapproval was owed to ignorance of the sport.

On the Australian vigor presumption 2DayFM connected Wednesday, she said she present lone "breaks" astatine location with her partner.

"Dancing is truthful overmuch amusive and it makes you consciousness bully and I don't deliberation radical should consciousness crap about, you know, the mode that they dance," she told The Jimmy and Nath Show.

Raygun had initially planned to support competing but said the acquisition had been truthful "upsetting" that she changed her mind.

At the time, she was offered intelligence wellness enactment due to the fact that of immoderate of the harsh reactions to her performance.

She antecedently defended her regular - insisting she did instrumentality the contention "very seriously" and deed retired astatine the "devastating" maltreatment she has suffered.

When asked by 2DayFM if she'd ever vie astatine the Olympics again, she answered, "No. I inactive break.. but I don't compete".

"I deliberation the level of scrutiny that's going to beryllium there... it's conscionable not going to mean the aforesaid thing. It's not going to beryllium the aforesaid acquisition due to the fact that of everything that's astatine stake."

As videos of her performances went viral, truthful did conspiracy theories astir her introduction into the competition.

One of the astir celebrated net rumours suggested she was an "industry plant" who was entered to rig the Games.

Raygun said those theories were "totally wild" and "impossible to process".

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Despite the aggravated criticism, the apical justice for the Paris Olympics breaking contention aboriginal defended her much-ridiculed routine.

And successful September, the sport's governing assemblage explained that she had been ranked the fig one pistillate breakdancer successful the world.

Breaking was introduced to the Olympics for the archetypal clip successful Paris, but it is not scheduled for Los Angeles successful 2028, oregon Brisbane successful 2032.