Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn has confirmed she will no longer compete in competitive breaking after going viral during the Paris Olympics.
“I’m not going to compete anymore, no,” she said told radio station 2DayFm. “I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems a really difficult thing for me to do now, to approach a battle. I still dance and I still break but that’s like, in my living room with my partner.”
She explained that competitions had become too “upsetting” following the Olympic games, which made her a viral sensation. “I just didn’t have any control over how people saw me or who I was,” she said. “I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now. I think the level of scrutiny that’s going to be there, and people will be filming it, and it will go online.”.
“It’s still impossible to process,” Gunn said. “The conspiracy theories were totally wild, and it was really upsetting because I felt like I just didn’t have any control over how people saw me or who I was, who my partner was, my story.” Still, Gunn admitted some positives have come from the attention that has come her way since the Olympics. She gets a lot of nice messages and Adele even described Gunn’s Olympics routine as “favorite thing” that happened during the games.
“That’s what gets me through, the people that are like, ‘You have inspired me to go out there and do something that I’ve been too shy to do, you’ve brought joy, you brought laughter, we’re so proud of you’,” Gunn said. “And just really frickin’ lovely things that people have written and that’s what I hold on to.”In August, Gunn spoke out against the backlash in a video message on Instagram. “When I went out there I had fun. I did take it very seriously,” she said.
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