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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Yeah, I don't know enough about breakdancing to really weigh in, but the criticism seemed overblown to me. She was maybe not as good as the other competitors, but not quite to the degree of "should be ridiculed into never competing again". Then again, even if it would have been the worst performance I saw, it wouldn't warrant that level of ridicule really. That's just not cool.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

I think the issue was not so much that she was worse than other Olympic competitors, it's that she was clearly not the best from Australia. That was the part that was and should be criticized. She took a spot from people who deserved it much more.

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