Polarising Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn nonetheless dances in her lounge however has revealed she’s give up competing.
The 37-year-old from Sydney, recognized globally as “Raygun”, admitted in a radio interview on Wednesday “the extent of scrutiny” surrounding her following her Paris 2024 marketing campaign had compelled her to retire.
“I nonetheless break, however I do not compete. I am not going to compete anymore. No, no,” Gunn stated on 2DayFM’s Jimmy and Nath Present.
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“I nonetheless dance and I nonetheless break, however that is like in my lounge with my associate.
“I feel the extent of scrutiny that is going to be there … and the individuals might be filming it, it will go browsing, and it is simply not going to imply the identical factor, it is not going to be the identical expertise due to every part that is at stake.”
Rachael Gunn competing on the Paris Olympics. Elsa/Getty Photographs
The college lecturer stated she’d deliberate on persevering with to compete heading into the Paris Video games, however the backlash she copped after pulling off strikes such because the sprinkler and the hopping kangaroo whereas decked out in a Staff Australia tracksuit, as an alternative of conventional streetwear, had killed the drive.
“That appears a very troublesome factor for me to do now, to method a battle,” Gunn stated.
She yielded no wins and nil factors from three battles as breaking made its Olympic debut.
It had already been confirmed previous to the Paris Video games that breaking wouldn’t function on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, though the game might return for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.
Gunn retreated from the highlight for a couple of month after the Paris Video games, however has since appeared in a bunch of TV and radio interviews.
She additionally made a front-page look within the Stellar journal final month.
“Dancing is a lot enjoyable and it makes you are feeling good and I do not assume individuals ought to really feel crap about the best way that they dance,” Gunn stated on the Jimmy and Nath Present on Wednesday.
“When you get on the market and you’ve got enjoyable on the dance flooring, then simply personal it.”
