Australian Olympic break dancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn has dropped one other bombshell on breakfast TV this morning – she’s not retiring and is “never going to stop”.
Information broke across the nation final week that the girl who turned one in all Paris 2024’s most viral athletes was hanging up her sneakers after an interview on Sydney radio.
However on 9’s In the present day on Monday morning, the B-girl revealed that eulogies for the alleged finish to her profession have been untimely.
“So I was talking, you know, on 2dayFM about how I’m not going to do certain competitions anymore, which didn’t seem like such a big deal because breaking is not going to be in the Olympics (at LA 2028) any way,” she mentioned.
“However you realize, I’m nonetheless going to be a part of group jams, or I’d prefer to go to group jams and nonetheless and nonetheless dance and nonetheless break – by no means used the phrase ‘retire’.
“But, you know, it just caught on to the news cycle.”
In the present day host Sarah Abdo then interjected to ask: “So you’re not retiring?”
“I’m not retiring,” Gunn replied. “You try to cease me. I’m not ever going to cease dancing.
“So if you hear that again, you know that it’s not the truth.”
Gunn, 37, went on to say that breaking was a “lifestyle” and that “you can’t retire from culture”.
“You can’t retire from an art form. so that’s why I’m never going to stop.”
Final week she informed 2DayFM’s Jimmy & Nath for Breakfast she was “not going to compete any more”, citing the “level of scrutiny” she now faces.
Phrase of Gunn’s so-called retirement unfold all over the world final Thursday, with the even the New York Instances reporting that she had give up following the backlash from her controversial Olympic efficiency.
On Monday morning, she mirrored on the three months for the reason that Paris Video games saying she was “doing much better” after dealing with an preliminary storm of criticism.
“It was really tough for a while there,” Gunn mentioned.
”And getting used to this entire new world, this entire new actuality.
“However I’m doing a lot better. And actually, the assist has been wonderful and the positivity and folks reaching out to me has been actually, actually particular.
”And that’s what I like to carry on to.”
The Sydney-based dancer was introduced out on stage at musician Tones & I’s live performance at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Enviornment on Saturday night time.
Footage from the present captured Raygun busting out her now-iconic strikes, together with the Kangaroo pose which has been copied all over the place from the schoolyard to Halloween costumes and on US late night time host Jimmy Fallon’s program.
“It was such an amazing experience, the crowd was amazing, the energy in the room,” she mentioned of the Tones & I live performance.
“I mean Tones & I is such a beautiful, kind supportive person and to invite me up on the stage was just amazing.”
She additionally addressed the “love-hate relationship” that exists between her and the Australian public – a few of whom have backed her and others chastised her.
“I seem to be quite polarizing. I think people either love me or hate me,” Gunn mentioned.
“And look, you realize that I’m not everybody’s cup of tea and that’s advantageous.
“There’s an entire lot of various approaches in breaking, and that’s what I like in regards to the dance. That’s what I like in regards to the tradition.
“And so, you know, if you don’t dig my style, I really hope that people are going in and going to breaking events and seeing what else is out there and really getting behind our breakers.”
