'Raygun' retires from breaking after Paris 2024 Olympic Games backlash
'Raygun' retires from breaking after Paris 2024 Olympic Games backlash
Rachel Gunn, aka Raygun, says she will no longer compete in the sport of breaking after the vitriolic reaction to her performance at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, said she would no longer compete as a breaker following her much-ridiculed Paris 2024 Olympic performance.
Gunn said it was "impossible to process" the impact of her performance.
I'd never seen it. It's quite bad.
It's like athletic yoga
My favorite part was watching LOGISTIX bouncing between thinking "what on earth is she doing?" to "wait, maybe I'm doing it wrong?"
She actually started out pretty well, but ended TERRIBLY.
Yeah, I don't know enough about breakdancing to really weigh in, but the criticism seemed overblown to me. She was maybe not as good as the other competitors, but not quite to the degree of "should be ridiculed into never competing again". Then again, even if it would have been the worst performance I saw, it wouldn't warrant that level of ridicule really. That's just not cool.
She didn't deserve the hate for her performance, but thankfully it turns out she's a complete asshat who got there because of nepotism, and she is actively erasing other styles from being represented because her federation is either racist or too full of itself to show other form of art besides the one her husband invented.
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I think it's moreso the fault of the Olympics trying to create a new sport in such a small amount of time. One thats based on a subjective art that didn't have a long history of regulated competition.
The reason we didn't get the absolute best break dancers from every nation is simply because there wasn't an established organization that was already holding regulated competitions.
I think the issue was not so much that she was worse than other Olympic competitors, it's that she was clearly not the best from Australia. That was the part that was and should be criticized. She took a spot from people who deserved it much more.
Eh I’ve seen worse.
The fact that a bad dancer is the only thing that anyone seems to remember from the olympics shows what a clown show the Olympics are
Careful, you might be surprised by a turkish man with his hand in his pocket and both eyes open.
If you only remember that, then maybe you are the clown.
I have to admit, her hilite was the first thing I saw about it, and it was enough to make me not want to take any of it seriously, so I didn't bother watching at first. I only went back and watched replays later after hearing someone else comment about how impressive most of it actually was...
It was different. Not like break dancing I've seen before. If viewed as interpretive dance instead, I think it was good.
Every move was supported by multiple points of contact with the ground. There was little strength or momentum control displayed. The relation to the beat was marginal. It was interpretive yoga.
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