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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Be of good cheer. We’ll always have her performance in Paris to remember. >>>sniff<<<
And to think she is a “professor” of dance. Possibly there was a misspelling...Professor of Dunce. What a waste of the school’s money. I hope she gets medical treatment for her spasms.
“And yet she’s probably the only participant people will remember.”
True for this writer. After the woke/satanic debacle that was the opening ceremony, I avoided watching. But I did enjoy the clips of this gal twitching around and spinning on the stage in her unique, if somewhat less than graceful, style...
She was an inspiration to us all that if you think you can do it, then you can.
The “Eddie The Eagle” of Breakdancing.
The money comment on that YouTube video: I would pay $50 for this to be on my coffee table. I'm calling the number and no one is answering.
Ironically, Alfonso Ribeiro shared that he stole his most famous dancing move, "The Carlton", where he dances as a black guy who's so white, from actress Courtney Cox in the video of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark".
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