Breakdancer Raygun shocks fans with drastic new look after Paris Olympics
Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, ditched her green-and-gold tracksuit for a glam unutilized glance in her barricade execute for Stellar booklet.
On Thursday, the Australian breakdancer gave her Instagram followers a “sneak peak” of the execute, which shall be absolved in complete on Sunday.
Within the barricade shot, Gunn shocked in an electrical blue robe with bell sleeves, which she paired with strappy dark sandals.
Antagonistic to her standard dishevelled ‘fits, the dress showed off the dancer’s curves as she posed together with her fingers on her hips.
Gunn, 37, slicked her shoulder-length hair — which she typically wears unwell in shed waves — again into a protracted braided ponytail.
She finished her bronzed make-up glance with deep crimson lipstick as she appeared defiantly unwell the barrel of the digicam.
The barricade, prepared on a yellow background, additionally featured a poignant quote from the dancer’s accompanying interview.
“You did not bring me down. You did not succeed. I will stand by what I did,” it learn.
Raygun went viral over the summer upcoming competing within the 2024 Paris Olympics breakdance pageant, during which she didn’t rating a unmarried level.
Her atypical facial expressions, backward roll, sprinkler exit and kangaroo hop left many audience — including Jimmy Fallon — puzzled as to how she tied a place at the global’s greatest degree.
Amid the inflow of abhor, Gunn took to her Instagram to defend her performance and choice within the pageant.
“I didn’t realize that that would also open the door to so much hate which has frankly been pretty devastating,” she mentioned. “While I went out there and I had fun, I did take it very seriously.”
“I worked my butt off, preparing for the Olympics and I gave my all truly.”
Even Australia’s breaking group, AUSBreak, spoke out about her selection, confirming she was once selected via a “fair and transparent” audition procedure.
All over her first sit-down interview latter day, Gunn evident she had handiest “seen little bits and pieces” of her extremely criticized performances however never watched the whole thing because of the backlash.
“I am stll in the process of being able to describe how I feel about all this stuff because it kind of feels like a really weird dream that I’ve been having that I’m going to wake up from at any moment,” she told Australia’s Network 10’s “The Project.” “Like, what is life right now?”
The instructional-turned-dancer additionally evident she was once taking a crack from pageant for the foreseeable generation.
“I would much rather focus on the positives out of this, and the positive responses and the joy that I brought people,” she mentioned.
“It’s going out there and just having fun and going as hard as you can in the face of, you know, losing.”