Getty ImagesRachael Gunn, the reigning champion of Australia, has announced that she will stop competing because of the positive feedback she received at the Paris Olympics.
Gunn, who is known as B-girl Raygun, failed to appear on the score in all three of her August competition sessions with a program that included unusual moves like the water and a bunny fly.
The 37-year-old college professor’s moves catapulted her to international attention and scorn, spawned crime theories about her certification, and reignited condemnation of breaking’s addition in the Olympics.
Gunn had intended to continue competing, but she later said the story had been so “upsetting” that she had to change her mind.
She told the local radio station 2DayFM on Wednesday,” I just did n’t have any control over how people saw me or who I was.”
” I was going to stay competing, for certain, but that seems really hard for me to do today.
” I think the level of scrutiny that’s going to get it, and people will become filming it, and it will go electronically.”
After the Olympics, Gunn received a lot of aggressive information, and she was the issue of an anonymous complaint requesting an apology. It erroneously accused her and her husband of stifling another American skills at the cost of her choice.
Olympian officials vigorously defended her, but some in the breaking industry claimed that she made fun of the game.
It also rekindled debates over whether breaking, which debuted in Paris but is n’t on the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, should have ever been a part of the Olympics because of the genre’s creative side, which does n’t necessarily suit organized competition.
Gunn has recently claimed that the backlash for her, to which she once again alluded on Wednesday, made a personal statement.
” Dancing is so much joy, and it makes you feel good. I do n’t believe that people should be unhappy with their dancing.
” I also dance, and I also break. But, you know, that’s like in my living space with my companion”!