World number 1 in breakdancing in September, the Australian “Raygun” announced on Wednesday that she was stopping her competitive career, shocked by the wave of negative reactions after her performance during the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Participating in the breakdancing event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rachel Gunn aka “Raygun” was deeply marked by the flood of criticism and mockery that fell on her after her performance. While social networks took great joy in ridiculing the Australian, the latter had difficulty coping, as she admitted on August 15 on her Instagram account:
“I didn’t realize that it would also open the door to so much hatred, which was honestly quite devastating”. Nearly three months later, she chose to stop competing.
Obviously not recovered and still in shock from the comments and messages received, the one who also works as a university professor in Sydney explained her decision on local radio. 2DayFM. “I’m going to stop competing. […] I was really preparing to continue competing, but I feel like it became something really difficult for me. » Not wanting her next performances to be filmed and broadcast again on the networks by certain malicious minds ready to trigger new waves of mockery, the thirty-seven-year-old breaker therefore preferred to say stop.
Number 1, the revenge of “Raygun”
Figure of the 2024 Olympics despite herself, “Raygun” did not obtain the slightest point during the three battles in which she took part during the competition. His performance, and in particular his imitation of a kangaroo, then triggered the famous mockery. A month later, however, she was entitled to quite a revenge when the World Dance Sports Federation crowned her number 1 in the discipline. Not enough to give him back the taste of continuing in competition.
As for breakdancing, after its big Olympic debut during Paris 2024, it will not be entitled to a second consecutive presence during the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games since the discipline will not be on the program. Maybe he will return in 2032? Nothing is less certain at the moment.
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