Aussie Olympic breakdancer fires message at critics
Rachael Gunn, a breakdancer set to bust out moves at the Paris Olympics, has hit the haters with this message.
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An Australian breakdancer set to bust out moves at the Paris Olympics has fired a message at the critics, urging them to watch a live performance and questioning how many sports produce new skills as often as breaking.
Rachael Gunn, who goes by "Raygun", and 16-year-old Jeff Dunne, whose nickname is "J-Attack", were announced on the Australian Olympic team in Sydney on Saturday.
Gunn, a 36-year-old who has a PhD and is a university lecturer, shot a message at the haters, those on social media and elsewhere, in an interview with Wide World of Sports.
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"What would I say to those people? Just wait and watch it, and then tell me what you think. I think they would be impressed by it," Gunn said.
"I see it happen all the time. People kind of dismiss it, and then they see a live performance of breaking, or they see some footage of breaking, and I see their face actually go, 'Woah, I didn't realise that was breaking. I didn't realise it involved that. Wow, that's really cool. Oh my gosh, that's going to be epic at the Olympics'.
"There have been a lot of people at many events I've done that go through that same process. Initially, when I arrive they're a bit like, 'Ah, yeah, OK, here's the breaker', but then by the end ... they are genuinely excited.
"So, just wait and watch it, and tell me what you think."
Breaking will make its Olympic debut in Paris, but it's been snubbed for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
At Paris' Concorde Urban Park across August 9 and 10, 16 "b-boys" and 16 "b-girls" will square off.
Gunn and Dunne qualified by winning the Oceania qualifying event in October last year.
"I'm amazed that whenever I go to a competition I see something new," Gunn said.
"Every time I go to a world-level competition ... something surprises me, and I don't know how many sports have that record. Someone just does something completely unexpected.
"They'll be doing a combination that you might be familiar with, and then suddenly they'll do a flip, or they'll do a spin, or they'll do a completely new move that you've never seen before, or that you didn't think was possible, and the whole crowd goes nuts."
Gunn hammered home her point regarding skills in breaking versus other sports.
"The mastery of the diversity of movement I think is quite unusual, compared to a lot of the other sports that are out there, where they're really becoming specialists of a specific skill or a specific movement," Gunn said.
"With breaking there's so many different types of movement that you need to master: different types of strength, explosiveness, control. So there's a huge level of athleticism involved."
