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Australian breakdancer Raygun has announced her retirement from the sport after her humiliating Olympic debut.
“I’m not going to compete any more, no,” she said in an interview with 2DayFM.
“I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now to approach a battle. Yeah, I mean I still dance, and I still break. But, you know, that’s like in my living room with my partner. It’s been really upsetting. I just didn’t have any control over how people saw me or who I was.”
Raygun lost all three of her round her rounds and received a total score of 54-0.
Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn has announced her retirement from competitive breakdancing
This performance was one of the standout moments of the Paris Olympics, but the backlash has contributed to her decision to walk away from the sport. pic.twitter.com/6Xp6kbARiw
Her performance sparked thousands of memes, with viewers comparing her set to their toddler’s dance moves.
After the backlash, she apologized.
“I knew I was going to get beaten and that no one was going to understand my style and what I was going to do,” she said at the time. “The odds were against me, that’s for sure.”
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