Australian breakdancing champion Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, heavily criticized for her performance at the Paris Olympics this summer, has revealed she is quitting competition due to the denigration she received.
It’s over. After facing heavy criticism following her performances at the Paris Olympics this summer, Australian breaker Rachael Gunn is done with competition. The thirty-year-old told Australian radio 2DayFM that she would no longer participate in championships.
“I’m still breaking, but I’m not competing anymore. I’m not going to compete anymore. No, no,” she declared this Thursday.
The mockery that the 37-year-old young woman had to face on the networks following her not always academic performances this summer put an end to her desire to compete. “I was going to continue to compete, for sure, but it seems really difficult to approach a battle now,” explained Rachael Gunn, confiding to have been “really upset” by these reactions.
Dance should “make you feel good”
“I had no control over how people saw me or what I was,” said the athlete, who defended his performances this summer by explaining that he “wanted to do something new, to artistic and creative” against competitors at a high technical level.
Chosen to represent her country in the first breakdancing competition in the history of the Olympic Games, Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, scored no points during her appearances, and her selection by the Australian Olympic committee even was questioned by several Internet users in a petition, forcing the committee to justify itself.
A professor at the University of Sydney, she does not intend to deprive herself of this discipline that she loves, but will prefer in the future to practice just for pleasure. Recalling that dancing allows you to “have fun” and “feel good,” she said that people “should not feel uncomfortable because of the way they dance. If you go out and have fun on the dance floor, then own it,” she stressed.
