Australian shatterdancer Rachael Gunn has brought on fairly a stir on social media after her carry outance on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Breaking, extra generally understandn as shatterdancing, made its debut as an Olympic sport on Friday. The competitors consists of two gender-based occasions, with 16 B-boys and 16 B-girls vying for the ggreater.
Gunn — who contends underneath the title Rayfirearm — went viral on-line after her carry outance Friday within the round-robin stage of the ladies’s shattering competitors, the place she was swept out with out achieveing a one level. The 36-year-greater igniteed dozens of memes and drew criticism from watchers for her untraditional relocates whereas competing aachievest the U.S.’s Logan Edra, Lithuania’s Dominika Banevič and France’s Sya Dembélé.
“Misachieves have been positively made of us, however the hugegest one was communication by [Raygun’s] household & mates,” one person wrote on X (establisherly Twitter). “It’s unwidespread, however not alerting somebody they will’t dance can have world implications.”
One other person on X wrote, “My canine on the garden 30 seconds after I’ve completed baleang him.”
Gunn, who has a PhD in cultural research, is a university professor at Macquarie College in Sydney. She was named the top-ranked B-girl of the Australia Breaking Affiliation in 2020 and 2021, and gained the Oceania Breaking Championships in 2023.
In the end, Japan’s Ami Yuasa achieveed the ggreater medal for the B-girls competitors, whereas Banevič scored silver and China’s Liu Qingyi achieved bronze. The B-boys competitors achieves place Saturday.
See extra reactions of Gunn’s shattering carry outance on the Olympics beneath:
