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'Raygun' retires from breaking after Paris 2024 Olympic Games backlash (www.abc.net.au)

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Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, said she would no longer compete as a breaker following her much-ridiculed Paris 2024 Olympic performance.

Gunn said it was "impossible to process" the impact of her performance.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

She deserved the scorn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No, she didn't. There was ONE video that was specifically edited to make her look bad. If you watch the full performance, it's not great, but it's absolutely not worth the backlash it got. It was HUGELY overblown.

I'm specifically talking about her infamouse Olympic performance here. I have no idea about the nepotism/racism stuff. All I'm saying is the performance itself wasn't bad enough to warrant the ridiculous response it got.