Australian Breakdancer Raygun Breaks Silence Over Criticism After Routine | 2024 Olympics | E! News 

Calling that the water sprinkler is very generous of you! 😁

Isn't it a Cobra?

@@randalkihei9261 yeah I’m surprised the media isn’t bringing up that she got a 0 but instead blaming people for pointing out what a horrible act it was. She got a zero plus ruined it for her peers who might have had hope to go because they’re not even doing breakdance in the 2028 Olympics.

@@Dan-di9jd this "sport" was always a joke

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The judges are racist!

She said she worked her butt off but then why is it still so big? If you watch other athletes, they always achieved the perfect body structure for their discipline. With her it really looks like she's a mom who volunteered in the crowd to go up there..

If she gets consequences for corruption, then sure. Until then, she gets zero points

She sure did 😂😂

In a wrong place

Wait, I thought she WAS doing a comedy-parody routine. Is she saying she thinks she is a real professional break dancer?

Golden comment.

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Right? Like we cant see the fking video and like weve never seen actual breakdancing.

no, it is because you love them, you don't send them to the olympics to fail...he must really hate her 😅💀

yeah those people are horrendous, what do you call them? not visually impaired, yeah how being able to see entitles them to form an opinion on reality? Ray Gun you have the support of every person who didn´t or couldn´t see your performance.

@@alexaraya2018 no she doesn’t but you’re entitled to such opinions

​@@alexaraya2018That's beyond ridiculous. You must be liberal

These people are trolls, themselves.

WE were confused in America. 😂

Fax she owns the company that qualified her for the Olympics

I really do not understand this narrative. Her husband is not the coach- She doesn't own any club that ran the Oceanic Championship. I don't get how everyone is just going along with this pretty far fetched idea.

so true, a strange world we live in today

Idiocracy all over the place...

So true. Some people say the most delusional, hating garbage while scamming people but “Hey at least he’s honest 🤪”

Yep, incompetent bias people took over the world, but hey at least she is faking it in dancing, imagine if she decided to be a doctor or a surgeon....

Wow

never hated anyone so much

She's talentless for sure but was given an opportunity to compete, maybe foolishly. Why she was given this opportunity is where criticism needs to be applied. You let any talentless person compete in the Olympics, they're going to embarrass themselves and their country exactly the same way.

she had the younger ages banned from being allowed to try out

The rest of the population must not have limbs if she is the best 😂

This is what happens when I new event is added to the Olympics.

@@missymani 😂🤣

@@luckyspec2274hope she realizes how selfish. I doubt it tho. They usually stay that way

Me! I got lost when the preliminaries were being held, unfortunately someone gave me the wrong address for the event 😢

I mean..... yea she did, but they let that happen. So I don't really feel that bad.

The girl she went up against in the qualifiers, I think her name was Holy Molly or something like that, was way better than Raygun. I watched the last round and she easily beat Raygun.

​@@RobinJusticeWoods I saw that as well ! That Holly molybwss a 100 times better than her 😮it,s such a shame she had to go in looking like a tennis ball girl and do such a whack routine.

@spatty918 provide a link that proves this claim.

Unfortunate part is she didnt beat anyone because her and her husband are con artist, they failed to let everyone else know this was even happening.

Paid off judges

Lol. What is suspicious about that?

​@@Pgt93that she bribed judges.

​@@Pgt93that's she bribed judges at the minor comps.

No she didn’t. Australia is a joke for sending her. You got it the wrong way around

Maybe the Australians have enough self-confidence to withstand having a break dancer who has a sense of humour.

No, the Olympics was made a joke when they allowed breakdancing in the games.

I think Breakdance is more than just „being the best of the best“. It‘s about culture also. And she is an expert on this culture, intellectually at least (she has published several papers, especially one about the relationship of breakdancing and olympics in 2023). So while it is always questionable when a street culture becomes mainstream, I think she accompanied this process with her nerdy punch in the face. She is just a nerd b-girl

Maybe you don't understand what the Olympics are .actually scratch that .I'm flat out telling u ,you don't understand what tge Olympics are

Exactly!

Her husband helped choose her

Ur gonna hate what happened in womens boxing then.

​@@nebwachampwhat happened?

Bruhh her husband is the organiser of the Australian olympic team. Both deserve to be imprisoned for fraud. Putting down actual teams like nt youlong boys and taking all funding from their competition. For this miserable representation of none sense.

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Hhahaha 🤣

Leftist politics. Rinse repeat

exactly

She did mock breaking but there’s a lot of truth in what she did - most of what I saw from most of the Olympic competitors was pretty amateurish. There’s tons better on RU-vid than what I saw. I think Rachel trolled the entire world, Borat style.

They are laughing just like the rest of us. It’s about attention.

That's what Woke does ....

I’m sure your Nephew would have done a better job than what’s this lady did 😭

Don't forget the kangaroo 😂

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I’m 200% sure your 3 year old nephew would have done better than her! She looked like she was having a seizure and muscle spasms on that floor 😬

ummmm excuse me it was a KANGAROO hop

Methinks they're probably all emigrating 😅

She wasn't the best..... something went wrong with selection

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 it was a scam

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457yes, it was rigged

they really need to stick to swimming/diving, sailing.

Thats the world we live in today, women are not capable of being or doing anything wrong or bad…

It’s very few people calling it sexist.. I hate people like that pretending that’s what feminism is 🤦

Sexism? Who said that? But I agree the women rocked it. I was super surprised by B-girls India, 671 and Ami so dope creative. The men's event also spectacular. But Raygun shouldn't have been there but you know what if Team Australia felt that was there best Bgirl to represent then hey 🤷🏽‍♂️ but don't they have to compete prior to even get into the Olympics. I think for sure this was just a test run. But Raygun should not get hate. Matter of fact I couldn't even do her moves 😂 so shout out to her for doing her best. But the sad part that pisses me off they won't have breaking in 2028 los angels and maybe not even in Brisbane Australia 2032. So what was the point. All the breakers probably where thinking yes I could go in 2028 or 2032 or in the future. But now nothing. Super dumb on California for rejecting it. Like breaking came out of America the bronx then it hit every city then world wide. God knows when the Olympics coming back to America after 2028. You kno what, they should do what they did for surfing the Olympics was in Paris but surfing was in Tahiti. I bet if Cali spoke to the bronx. They could just set up something nice at any location or gym or armory in the bronx or Manhattan. Just dumb for not wanting to continue it. EVEN THOUGH THEY MENTIONED ALOT OF PEOPLE WHERE WATCHING and the top heads In Paris loved it and said it was "exhilarating" Breaking is basically gymnastics but cooler.

@@aspengreen4319 there are many people in the media calling is sexist. Just like the media calling you sexist if you don't like kamala.

​@@Simply_Ralfy1:13 they cut that part out but during her interview she said it was sexism. You csn find the full clip on youtube. This channel just likes to hide the truth of ehat people say

Only works for wyt people.....

Not a total waste. We got memes out of it.

@@SmashingJack it’s the best thing from the trash olympics

Australia has handled the hip hop culture EXTREMELY poorly. You guys should leave hip hop alone. Seriously. Its disrespectful and downright clownish at this point. Just stop.

Corruption exposed!

Like Black face? 😂 Somethings you just don’t do if you respect other people’s culture.

Yep, she has a phd in dancing or something.

Well, break dancing really is a type of interpretive dance, but what she did still isn't it

I think she thought break dancing was rolling around on the floor and occasionally touching her chin or the brim of her cap.

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😂😂😂 knew it looked familiar

My 3yr old had more moves and tricks when throwing a tantrum on our kitchen floor, he’s more entertaining to watch than her.

I tripped over a bag of yard waste while carrying it down a hill once. Olympic moment!

I once took of my shoes and socks at the beach and underestimated how scorching hot the sand was and did some olympic worthy moves as well 😌

Chill 😂

This Olympics was doomed from the start.

Not only that, she’s deflecting attention from actual champion bgirls and bboys who worked so hard to show their craft in the Olympics. 😢

It was a clasic Aussie humor. The best on the world.

People work their ENTIRE LIFE for a moment on an Olympic stage, and especially considering it was BRAND NEW, to make basically a joke out of it is insane. And to make others that worked so hard for it WATCH YOU ACT A FOOL is even crazier. Step further then for the coach to encourage it/try to replace blame back onto “trolls” is just ridiculous. She made a mockery of it and should have opted out if she ACTUALLY felt she had no chance. If you had no chance, there were probably thousands of women who would have killed for and killed the competition. She should be ashamed and this is not an act of courage in the slightest. And that’s coming from a black American woman. I’d never encourage my daughter to make a fool of herself and/or others

She is a PHd in cultural movement. She didn't qualify as Australia didn't have anyone else.

Her husband and her conned the community Look into it. It was awful . I feel bad for the people of her nations

My thoughts exactly 😂

What are you? How did she qualify? You don’t have to qualify nowadays. You could be a man and pay home. You’re a girl. It’s all BS qualify. Give me a qualified knucklehead to watch it.

She was picked as a DEI prospect and her woke ideas

Self-delusion isn't courage.

She is the coolest Aussie I’ll ever know!

How did she bring shame on her country?

She has no shame.

​@@khankake9576By failing at Break Dancing in the Olympic games.

That's a shocking lack of oversight.

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Exactly!!!

It shouldn’t be in the Olympics.

It's both tho. It is art. And it's also athleticism.

Breaking is about interpretation and art, hence the marks on music and stuff. Just like Gymnastics is subjective, the point is her interpretation and "ART" was horrible. Again, breaking has cultural significance.

@@Bibirallie Absolutely, it is super subjective and just not a sport.

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Legendary comment

Just another woke going broke (she broke the record)

True

Her husband was literally the main reason she got to compete. Relax.

Thank you - a shameful report

She is a victim in the sense that international humiliation isn't an appropriate punishment for being bad

​@@TheMangoMovement It's a predictable consequence of doing what she did on a global stage. It's unreasonable to expect people to just not have opinions on what they've been shown.

And non-dancer

@@Jaykun09 it's also Australia's fault for not stopping her from getting to the Olympics. She assumed she was good because she got that far.

Everything people of color create is not for everybody. I hate when we create something and others try to imitate it, redefine it, and tell us what it is. Just Stop! This is not Breakin!

I'm embarrassed for Australia

@@carolegreen9938 Don't be. Most Aussies have a sense of humour.

@@lindaferguson630clearly they don’t

@@lindaferguson630 Their memes about her have been hilarious.

I was too…until she doubled down on this hilarious debacle 😂. The lesson here is if you’re not going to simply own up to being ridiculously unskilled, don’t say anything. At all 😂

Breakdancing is already embarrassing enough as it is without her...

Interested to hear what year the dawn of said art was for you? Because for me it was 1985 with actual boom boxes.

That was an absolute mockery to all B Boys.

In 1984 we did moves in the high school hall at lunch that would have at least won her a bronze if she could pull them off.

​@@B77548This. It becoming a Olympic sport is beyond ridiculous. I imagine it is the result of a group of White upper-class burocrats in a room trying to find a way to make it more "hip" and "current".

Was it a Pope or Gardena? Fans need to know.

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Why should she be ashamed? There's no shame in what she did. Embarrassed yes, & she'll definitely be that.

Full grown? Well past that. She's a middle aged woman.

Adults gotta be more childlike sometimes for fun...its feels really good!

Men. Are .always. so fixated on women’s ages

Woman, singular. "Women" is plural.

Indeed 👍

She hasn't even reached the level of bad

She did the T rex a diss

I would say she is one of those people who has gone thru life where her parents have told her that everything she did was exceptional, she would never have been told no and she is in that age group where every child at school that runs in a race or there is some sort of competition that gets a prize.

That friend would then be called a misogynist and cancelled

I was going to say.

Have you seen other performances by professional breakdancers? It takes incredible skill and an insane level of strength and stamina.

And l straight up thought that's what it was at 1st😭😂

@@anonymouscomment8477 that's what I was thinking... From now to Dec 31st she's going to break the Internet with the most mems... 🤔

she's a woke lecturer what do you expect 😂

@@LiwaySaGu Can you even define woke?

I'd say your spelling is below mediocrity. 😂

​@@AirLancerhardline leftists

​@@LiwaySaGu Nice try, little Russia bot

She's white

Her husband was the judge for the competitions in Australia. She also only let her friends compete so she could beat them and didn’t have to go up against anyone with actual skills

Her husband was a judge in the qualifiers! She was the CEO of the group sponsoring the qualifiers.

It’s the best Australia has

She did not TAKE ANYTHING OFF ANYONE. Someone gave her the place. They are at fault

She gave the spot for herself... Corruption people call it

She didn't. The only other candidate was even worse. There was no one else.

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⁠@@drnanard9605so you’re saying the out of 26 million people, only two people knew (used this term very loosely) how to breakdance?

Art, culture, country, you name it.

Yep.😅

Don't insult artistry. That performance completely lacked any of it.

She didn't. She won her spot by being better than the others. The real tragedy here is that Australian girls don't know how to breakdance.

@@drnanard9605 Her husband sponsored the tryout competition, it was arranged for her to win. I promise there's video coming out of better girls than her.

Breaking has no beauty or dignity

I don’t see how cultural appropriation is relevant, since breakdancing has its origins in America doesn’t that mean every other country is culturally appropriating as well?

@@drnanard9605have you watched her qualifying matches? She gets absolutely destroyed. She was not better than anyone. She is extremely privileged.

We need to get Will Ferrel on this.

If we didnt know better it could be a skit from SNL…

There's already a movie 🎬 like this. Little miss sunshine 🌞. About a poor girl going to a pageant and doing an embarrassing performance because she has no idea.

@@martincarlberg9671 I want to be a movie extras since it was my idea. Or a body double. I think I could play her as a body double.

​@@Vanessa-po6my yes

They always double down it's how they roll it's an all out attack on our common sense

whats sad is anyone who would have her teach them

Calm down. She lectures about breaking culture, she doesn't teach people how to break. She was the wrong choice for the Olympics but it's pathetic to say she's bad at her day job. There's a humorous irony given what she does, but lecturing about culture is not a correlation to dance performance.

I was her student and she doesnt actually teach us how to dance she once taught us about the breaking culture

@@dff8809 you paid to learn about break dancing........in college.......Great use of money.....

@@MrBill-ee4mr im an interactive design student in the department of media and i had to take a compulsory unit about media representation. In one of the lectures Rachel was discussing breaking culture. Im not a break dance student at all… i wasnt even interested in that topic..

Your argument is flawed...

Except in events where being creative is part of the talent…

its one of the 4 metrics but without the other 3 that alone isnt enough. I didnt see any creativity either. Shigikix and phil wizard...had creativity.

​@@emillyyelen5169 clearly you didn't read it properly

They are measured by creativity, like gymnastics or boxing, she was just UNCREATIVE

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Do we have to start our sentence with “I’m Black” for you to know that we are here?

Mentally she’s 16.

Yes exactly, I wonder how her parents feel now, embarrassed I hope

Elementary school surely

The whole thing is very... sambo routine. It feels racist. Her duck face reads like she's thinking to herself, "this is what i think breakdancers (mostly black, or at least originally so) look like. Here, let me do my impression of a breakdancer for you.

"could have done a non-athletic performance" Clearly you have 0% idea what break dancing is all about. What a dumb comment

I thought it was the 🦘 hop!

it was a kangaroo hop. because she's from australia. kangaroos are from australia. that's very creative. you are not creative enough to link kangaroos to australia. maybe if you get a phd you will get this.

Nah, she is dressed like our Australian women’s cricket team. Bloody awful she was.

Very good question 🤔 Apparently she and her Husband/coach fooled someone. Now they are looking like fools 🤪🙃😖

​@@DeborahMitchell-hh1xpthey don't care prob get lots of money out of this already have

Liberal academia nepotism

@@CatLoverx900 Was her university somehow connected to the selections?

@@kimonmatara1350 Dr. Todd Grande has a lovely segment on the matter.

no, it was because of her husband.

i saw it.. it was gooooood

Were you looking thru your fingers and trying not to look but just had to keep on, that is what i did. It was like watching a car crash in slow motion 😊

thousands of students will be mocking her

and the worm