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Australian dancer Raygun is speaking out after she said she would no longer compete in breaking, the improvisational style of dance that had a breakout moment during the 2024 Olympics. Raygun, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, made waves after she competed in the women's breaking competition in Paris this summer, and faced online ridicule for her performance. The 37-year-old B-girl appeared on the Jimmy & Nath Show on Nov.
I'm still probably going to get down and and dance and enter a community jam, things like that.' 'But in terms of those elite competitions, and the Olympics, which by the way, breaking is not even in the Olympics in the next one, so it kind of turned into a really big thing today,' she added.
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