Australia’s ‘Raygun’ has apologised for the backlash that her widely ridiculed Paris Olympics performance brought to the broader breakdancing community.
FILE - Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun, competes in the Women's Breaking dance Round robin of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris. Photo: Odd Andersen/AFP, whose routine featured a move that mimicked a kangaroo hopping, made the comments in an interview with Australia's Channel 10 to be broadcast on Wednesday.
Commentators have questioned how she qualified for the Games, with some of her more fierce critics back home calling her a national embarrassment.Gunn said in the interview she had not expected to do well at the Olympics, but that her record showed she was the best breaker in Australia. "As soon as I qualified, I was like, oh my gosh, what have I done? Because I knew that I was going to get beaten, and I knew that people were not going to understand my style and what I was going to do," she said.Gunn said it was"really sad" to hear the negative reaction to her performance.
"And I am very sorry for the backlash that the community has experienced, but I can't control how people react.""But that really did put me in a state of panic," she said."I went out there and I had fun. I did take it very seriously. I worked my butt off preparing for the Olympics and I gave my all," she said in an August video message.
While many ridiculed her performance on social media, Gunn's moves won support from others, including her fellow Australian Olympians and Australia's prime minister.
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