{"id":13653,"date":"2024-11-08T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=13653"},"modified":"2024-11-08T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T00:11:09","slug":"australian-breakdancer-raygun-retires-from-competition-citing-olympic-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=13653","title":{"rendered":"Australian Breakdancer &#8216;Raygun&#8217; Retires From Competition, Citing Olympic Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mm-id=\"_hnn0wnvaw\">\n<p data-mm-id=\"_hnn0wnvaw\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_hnn0wnvaw\">After a most unusual 2024, Australian breakdancer Rachael &#8220;Raygun&#8221; Gunn is saying goodbye to the sport she loves at the competitive level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jgxs5l21z\">Gunn is retiring from breakdancing immediately, she\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mini-ray-gun-will-not-compete-ever-again\/id1605665093?i=1000675818698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mini-ray-gun-will-not-compete-ever-again\/id1605665093?i=1000675818698\" aria-label=\"told - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>The Jimmy &amp; Nath Show\u00a0<\/em>on 2Day FM\u2014a radio station in Sydney.<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CNqxmqi5y4kDFT6vOgUdb3EnsA\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ffe4hi6vx\">\u201cIt\u2019s just not gonna mean the same thing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be the same experience because of everything that\u2019s at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ubicbtdo7\">In August, Gunn competed in the inaugural breaking event at the Paris Olympics. She was shut out 18\u20130 in her three battles, and in a saga she called &#8220;surreal,&#8221; the 37-year-old professor&#8217;s moves drew online criticism and mocking around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0qrx365x7\">Now, as Gunn told the program, she is concerned that any future performances could be posted online.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_lp3772oup\">\u201cThat seems a really difficult thing for me to do now, to approach a battle,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, I still dance and I still break, but that\u2019s, like, in my living room with my partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_lp3772oup\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a most unusual 2024, Australian breakdancer Rachael &#8220;Raygun&#8221; Gunn is saying goodbye to the sport she loves at the competitive level. Gunn is retiring from breakdancing immediately, she\u00a0told\u00a0The Jimmy &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13655,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions\/13655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}