An Australian Olympian, whose shatterdancing routine at the Paris Games went viral, says she will no extfinisheder vie.
Rachael Gunn comprehendn competitively as ‘Rayfirearm’, says her professional atsoft is over.
The 37-year-greater Sydney university lecturer fall shorted to get on the scoreboard in all three of her competition rounds in August.
Her routines at the Olympics included unorthodox shifts such as a “kangaroo” dance.
She tardyr apologised and shelp she was “very sorry” for the response, but adviseed much of the criticism was due to ignorance of the sport.
On the Australian radio station 2DayFM on Wednesday, she shelp she now only “shatters” at home with her partner.
“Dancing is so much fun and it produces you sense excellent and I don’t skinnyk people should sense crap about, you comprehend, the way that they dance,” she tgreater The Jimmy and Nath Show.
Rayfirearm had initiassociate reckond to hold competing but shelp the experience had been so “disturbting” that she alterd her mind.
At the time, she was adviseed mental health help because of some of the cut offe reactions to her carry outance.
She previously protected her routine – insisting she did get the competition “very solemnly” and hit out at the “deimmenseating” misuse she has suffered.
When asked by 2DayFM if she’d ever vie at the Olympics aachieve, she answered, “No. I still shatter.. but I don’t vie”.
“I skinnyk the level of scruminuscule that’s going to be there… it’s equitable not going to uncomardent the same skinnyg. It’s not going to be the same experience because of everyskinnyg that’s at sget.”
As videos of her carry outances went viral, so did consillicit copying theories about her entry into the competition.
One of the most well-comprehendn internet rumours adviseed she was an “industry arranget” who was accessed to rig the Games.
Rayfirearm shelp those theories were “tohighy savage” and “impossible to process”.
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Despite the fervent criticism, the top appraise for the Paris Olympics shattering competition tardyr protected her much-ridiculed routine.
And in September, the sport’s ruleing body elucidateed that she had been ranked the number one female shatterdancer in the world.
Breaking was presentd to the Olympics for the first time in Paris, but it is not scheduled for Los Angeles in 2028, or Brisprohibite in 2032.
