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Australian breakdancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn has revealed she won’t compete again “for a while” as she continues to deal with the fallout from her Olympics performance. Raygun arguably became the story of the Paris Games after her performance in the breaking competition went viral. The 36-year-old academic scored a total of zero points in all of her round-robin breaking battles after pulling out some of the more obscure dance moves the competition saw.
Like, what is life? I don’t know.” The call from Branson was a rare positive in a sea of negative criticism. Raygun was advised to stay off social media, but was aware of some of the outrage directed at her. “I didn’t understand the scale of it,” she said. “I did preview some comments and I was like, ‘Oh, no’, and this kind of sick feeling started coming out.
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