Australia’s Olympic breakout star Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn has received vindication for her controversial performance at Paris 2024, with the b-girl being ranked as the world’s number one breaker by an official sport dancing body.
Just days after she was spotted dining with a British pop star in Amsterdam, the world-famous breakdancing professor finally arrived back in her home country for the first time since the Games.
Raygun’s original moves caught global attention at the Olympics’ first breaking event, with her unique performance becoming the subject of countless memes and impressions, as well as trolling and conspiracy theories.
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To much surprise, the 37-year-old subsequently became a more divisive conversation topic than any of the things I would usually avoid bringing up at a dinner table. Since she became famous faster than Chappell Roan, the world has seemingly been split into two camps: people who like Raygun, and people who really don’t.
And though there are (wildly) varying degrees of credibility to the criticisms against her, fans of the b-girl have been given a new reason to support Raygun thanks to the official World DanceSport Federation.
Raygun named world number one B-girl
Despite not getting a single point at the Paris 2024 Olympics b-girl event, Rachael Gunn has been unveiled as the world’s top b-girl by the World DanceSport Federation’s (WDSF) latest ranking.
The new ranking was revealed on September 9, Raygun’s name and face are pictured at the top of the leaderboard with a total of 1000 points to her name.
These points are from when she won the WDSF Oceania Championships, which qualified her to represent Australia at the Paris Games.
Among the top eight athletes, the ranking features four Australians and none of the medallists from the Paris 2024 b-girls event.
One explanation for Raygun’s top spot on the ranking, and the absence of numerous Olympics winners, is that the federation only ranks its own members, which consist of breakers from the 98 DanceSport associated groups across the world.
Following the international pile-ons toward Gunn, the WDSF released an official statement standing by its selection processes and all its athletes.
“The WDSF and the Breaking community stands by all our athletes, in particular Australian B-Girl Raygun, who has been subjected to a torrent of criticism since her appearance at Paris 2024,” read the WDSF statement.
“Head Judge MGbility told journalists at our closing press conference on 11 August: ‘I feel personally very sorry for her and I just want to say that Breakers and the Hip Hop community definitely stand behind her, because she was just trying to bring something new, something original, something that represents her country. So we stand with her and she has our support.'”
In her world-first interview since the Games, Raygun revealed to The Project that she “knew” she was not going to win at Paris 2024 due to her style of moves being different from what the judges preferred.
“I knew my chances were slim. As soon as I qualified, I was like, “Oh, my gosh, what have I done?!” Because I knew that I was gonna get beaten and I knew that people were not gonna understand my style and what I was gonna do,” she told The Project.
Regardless of not coming home with a single point from the Olympic event, Gunn has successfully become a household name, and is tipped to appear on an upcoming season of I’m A Celebrity… Get me Out Of Here!
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