Australian Breaker Raygun Gives First Post-Olympics Interview
Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, the controversial Paris Olympics breaker for Australia, has given her first post-’lympos interview. Speaking to Australia’s Channel 10 TV, Gunn said actually it was ignorance of the sport which motivated people to dunk on her so. “It was really sad how much hate that it did evoke,” she said. “And a lot of the responses is also just due to people not being very familiar with breaking and the diversity of approaches in breaking.” She described the vitriol levied against her as “alarming,” and maintained that she is in fact the best B girl in Australia. “I think my record speaks to that,” she said. “I was the top-ranked Australian B girl in 2020 and 2022, and 2023. … So the record is there, but anything can happen in a battle.” Anything …like T-Rex arms?
Raygun said she was sorry for the backlash the community has experienced. “Unfortunately, we just need some more resources in Australia for us to have a chance to be world champions,” she said, adding that she’d trained all year for the Olympics: “I have really put my body through it, put my mind through it. But if that’s not good enough for someone, what can I say?”
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