Viral Olympic breakdancer Raygun shoots down retirement reports: 'Never going to stop'
'I’m not retiring. You try and stop me. I’m not ever going to stop dancing.'
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If Raygun had done this much flipping while competing at the Olympics this summer in Paris, she might’ve actually scored a point or two.
Australian breakdancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn is firing back at reports last week that she is retiring from competition, saying that she is “never going to stop.”
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Raygun blasted the rumours, which originated on a Sydney radio show, on Aussie breakfast program Nine’s Today.
“So, I was talking, you know, on 2dayFM about how I’m not going to do certain competitions anymore, which didn’t seem like such a big deal because breaking is not going to be in the Olympics (at L.A. 2028) anyway,” she said on the show.
“But you know, I’m still going to be part of community jams, or I’d like to go to community jams and still dance and still break. Never used the word ‘retire.’
“But, you know, it just caught on to the news cycle.”
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Host Sarah Abdo interjected, asking for confirmation that Raygun was not, in fact, retiring.
“I’m not retiring,” Gunn replied. “You try and stop me. I’m not ever going to stop dancing.
“So, if you hear that again, you know that it’s not the truth.”
Gunn, 37, went on to say that breaking was a “lifestyle” and that “you can’t retire from culture.”
“You can’t retire from an art form. so that’s why I’m never going to stop.”
During an appearance last week on 2DayFM’s Jimmy & Nath for Breakfast, Gunn said that she was “not going to compete any more,” citing the “level of scrutiny” she now faces.
This statement understandably sparked the reports of her retirement.
Raygun became an instant viral sensation at the Summer Games in Paris earlier this year.
The Aussie caught the world’s attention for her controversial routine, which included moves that resembled kangaroo hopping, rolling on the floor like a toddler and doing the sprinkler.
She failed to score a single point and lost all three of her matchups in Paris, finishing second-last in the event ahead of only one competitor who was disqualified.
Since her performance at the Summer Games in Paris, Raygun hasn’t shied away from the public spotlight. She has made several TV appearances and recently traded in her tracksuit for a hot new look during a magazine photoshoot.
Gunn graced the cover of Oct. 27 issue of Stellar, which boasts that it is “Australia’s most-read Sunday magazine, with exclusive agenda-setting interviews, fashion and insights from the country’s top lifestyle experts.”
She also was brought out on stage at musician Tones & I’s concert at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night.
Clips from the show captured Raygun performing many of her infamous moves.
“It was such an amazing experience, the crowd was amazing, the energy in the room,” she said of the Tones & I concert.
“I mean Tones & I is such a beautiful, kind supportive person and to invite me up on the stage was just amazing.”
Minnesota Vikings player Cam Bynum also paid tribute to the Olympian on Sunday, busting out her signature moves while celebrating an interception.
Bynum later reposted a clip of the celebration while splicing in Raygun’s moves to match his own.
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