Posted on 11/08/2024 5:36:41 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
Australian breakdancer Rachel “Raygun” Gunn is hanging up her sneakers.
The 37-year-old’s routine went viral during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris and she was mercilessly mocked. She competed in three battles and was shut out 18-0.
In a recent interview on Australian radio’s Jimmy & Nath Show, on 2Day FM, she revealed she doesn’t want to endure the criticism that could possibly come with future performances.
“I’m not going to compete anymore, no,” she revealed to the Sydney station.
“It’s just not going to mean the same thing,” she said. “It’s not going to be the same experience because of everything that’s at stake.”
Gunn said she’ll continue to breakdance but in the privacy of her own home.
“That seems a really difficult thing for me to do now, to approach a battle,” she said. “I mean, I still dance and I still break, but that’s, like, in my living room with my partner.”
Breakdancing has been removed from the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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Nooooooooooooooooo!
And yet she’s probably the only participant people will remember.
No such thing as bad publicity.
Maybe, but there's no money to be made marketing crash helmets.
This woman needs to be immortalized on an Australian stamp and maybe even a coin.
Shucks. *smirk*
Most of LA’s great “break dancers” are playing shuffleboard in old folks homes.
How is Turbo doing from the earlier movies?
Oh, damn! I was hoping to follow her career, maybe see her get a hold medal one day.
Don’t forget ‘Boogaloo Shrimp’ from ‘Breakin’ 2, Electric Boogaloo’!
Omigosh! This is monumentous!
Where’s Grand Master Flash and the Fabulous Five when you need them?
Noooooooooooo !!!!!!
In this case, the Sid Vicious version is more appropriate.
(In my best “Maxwell Smart” voice): ‘Oh no! Raygun is retiring? I can’t believe it! This can’t be! Raygun can’t retire! What will we do if Raygun retires? By the way, Chief.....who is Raygun?”
Breakdancing was a inexplicable stain on history and culture but as time has passed, I recognize it as far, far worse than a bad, misguided joke on both the participants and the viewers they victimized. Breakdancing is a humiliation ritual.
They should have ordered Alfonso Riboero’s “Breaking and Popping” kit
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