Raygun vows to never compete in Olympics again after intense backlash, scrutiny

Rachael “Raygun” Gunn is calling it quits connected her master break career.

The Aussie dancer says she was met pinch a “level of scrutiny” that made dancing “really difficult” pursuing her infamous Olympics debut successful August.

Gunn, 37, disclosed her status aft she went viral for nan style of breakdancing she brought to nan streets of Paris for nan 2024 Olympic Games.

“I still break, but I don’t compete. I’m not gonna compete anymore,” Gunn revealed connected Australia’s 2DayFM “The Jimmy and Nath Show” Wednesday.

“Dancing is truthful overmuch nosy and it makes you consciousness bully and I don’t deliberation group should consciousness crap about, you know, nan measurement that they dance,” she told nan power show.

Gunn says she still breaks but only astatine location pinch her partner arsenic it has go “really difficult” for her to do now.

The Olympian blamed nan expected level of publicity and opinions everyone had connected her unorthodox techniques were nan reasons that led to her retirement.

“I deliberation nan level of scrutiny that’s going to beryllium location and nan group who will beryllium filming it and it’ll spell online,” she said. “It’s conscionable not going to mean nan aforesaid thing. It’s not going to beryllium nan aforesaid acquisition because of everything that’s astatine stake.”

In her 3 round-robin matches, Gunn showcased her unsocial moves including spinning connected her head, rolling connected her backmost and breaking retired a move called “the kangaroo,” paying homage to Australia’s nationalist animal.

Gunn vanished nan Olympics pinch zero points starring group to mobility really she qualified for Paris successful nan first place.

Following her viral performances, net rumors began spreading amok with conspiracy theories pinch 1 suggesting she was an embed to rig nan Games.

Raygun called nan theories “totally wild” and “impossible to process.”

“It was really upsetting because I felt for illustration I conscionable didn’t person immoderate power complete really group saw maine aliases who I was,” she said.

Despite nan galore hate-filled and antagonistic messages she has received, she was besides overwhelmed pinch nan affirmative ones she sewage from fans.

“It was really upsetting, but I conscionable effort and enactment connected nan positive,” she said. “That’s what gets maine through. The group that (say) ‘you person inspired maine to spell retired location and do thing that I’ve been to awkward to do. You’ve bought joy, you’ve bought laughter, we’re truthful proud of you.'”

“Just really fricken beautiful things that group person written and that is what I clasp connected to.”

Gunn told her fans to not fto anyone discourage them from doing what they emotion and make it their own.

“So if you get retired location and you person nosy connected nan creation floor, past conscionable ain it.”