Paris Olympian Rachael Gunn took on some hard questions in a most likeable - and Australian - way.
on Wednesday evening, Rachael “Raygun” Gunn is not the shameless grifter her myriad critics tried to make her out to be.Network Ten
In blistering columns, withering social media posts and even mass petitions, she was accused of everything from having gerrymandered her selection, to wasting taxpayers’ money to having single-handedly killed off an entire sport from Olympic representation. The attacks were excoriating, like few Australian sportspeople have experienced.host Waleed Aly’s first question was typically caring, and to the point: “How are you doing?”“It’s been a pretty wild ride,” she replied.
“I’m still in the process of trying to describe how I feel. It feels like a weird dream I’ve been having that I’m going to wake up from.”“It was really sad how much hate it did evoke. A lot of the responses, though, are due to people not being very familiar with breaking and the diversity of approaches in breaking.
Watch her and weep. For most of the nastiness was based on nonsense, and she was able to blow away the most damaging of the conspiracy theories, including the one that she and her husband had contrived her selection by setting up their own breakdancing ruling body.‘It feels like a weird dream I’ve been having that I’m going to wake up from.’There were nine judges, and as she made clear, she knew none of them.“As soon as I qualified, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.
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