The 2024 Paris Olympics were an interesting thing to watch. We got to see many excellent athletes doing what they do best, and we also got to see Raygun.
Rachel Gunn, who goes by the name of Raygun put on quite a performance in the breakdancing competition. Even if you weren’t interested in breakdancing, you couldn’t help but be interested in how she represented Australia at the games.
She was in the spotlight, but it seemed as if it was for all the wrong reasons. Before long, videos and pictures started showing up on social media and the comments were not all that nice.
Rachel has now decided that she will be quitting competitive breakdancing. She went viral for what she did at the Paris Olympics, but she didn’t appreciate the spotlight.
On November 5, she appeared on the Jimmy & Nath Show and spoke about her decision to break away from the competitive breakdancing arena.
She said: “I’d still break, but I’m not going to compete anymore. I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult thing for me to do now, to approach a battle … I mean, I still dance and I still break but, that’s like in my living room with my partner.”
Due to her performance at the Olympics, she now had to face a ‘level of security’ when she went to other competitions. She expressed this, saying: “People will be filming it and it will go online, and it’s just got not going to mean the same thing. It’s not going to be the same experience because of everything that’s at stake.”
On November 7, she followed up with an additional appearance on The Project, which is an Australian show. She said that she wasn’t retiring completely, she just wasn’t going to be looking for any attention.
She said: “I was talking about competing, and yeah, I don’t really see myself competing anymore. And then, like, ‘Global news: Raygun is retiring,’ and it just kind of has gotten a little bit out of hand.”
She continued, saying: “Raygun’s not retiring. But I think I mean, because it’s different in breaking culture, I’m still going to dance, and I said that in the interview. I’m still going to dance, I’m still going to go to community jams. I’m still probably going to get down and and dance and enter a community jam, things like that.
“But in terms of those elite competitions, and the Olympics, which by the way, breaking is not even in the Olympics in the next one, so it kind of turned into a really big thing today.”
