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Her performance during the Paris 2024 Olympics was ridiculed and made the rounds on social networks: touched by this episode, the Australian breaker “Raygun” announced that she was ending her career.
Her performance – very atypical – at the Paris Olympic Games was mocked, and the Australian athlete “Raygun” did not recover. At 37, she has just announced that she will no longer compete in breakdancing, after being very affected by this episode.
“I was really preparing to continue competing but now it seems like a really difficult thing for me,” she told Australian radio station 2DayFM. “I worked really hard to prepare for the Olympics and I gave everything I had, really,” she explained, admitting that she had not prepared “for so much of hatred, which was honestly quite devastating.”
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Named the best breaker in the world by the World Dancesport Federation (WDSF) in September, “Raygun”, real name Rachael Gunn, had not won any of her three face-to-face matches with other B-girls at the Olympics. Faced with the wave of mockery that fell on her after her performances, she received the support of many athletes as well as the Australian Prime Minister. Test discipline at the Paris Olympics, breakdancing will not be kept in Los Angeles in 2028.
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