Following claims of retirement from Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, or “b-girl Raygun,” the viral Olympic hopeful has made a shock look onstage with fellow Aussie Tones And I on the latter’s Melbourne efficiency on Saturday (Nov. 9).
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Acting at Rod Laver Enviornment, the penultimate track of Tones And I’s headline set was “Dance With Me”, the fourth single from her 2024 album, Fantastically Abnormal.
Whereas the album charted atop the ARIA chart in Australia, Tones And I has not had a charting hit within the US other than her breakthrough single “Dance Monkey”, which peaked at No. 4 on the Scorching 100 i 2019.
Hyping up the group, Tones And I urged the viewers to “please give it up for an Australian icon, probably the most iconic break dancer there’s, Raygun!”
The controversial Olympian took to the stage to share her breaking expertise all through the efficiency, with recollections of her viral look on the Paris Olympics flooding again for all in attendance.
Taking to social media following Raygun’s look, Tones And I shared a video of the encounter and expressed her gratitude for the breaker, referring to her because the “most lovely kindest vigorous human I’ve met”
“It was an honour to have fun you final night time,” she added. “Thanks for sharing the stage with me and bringing smiles to so many faces. You at all times have a good friend in me.”
Raygun, a 37-year-old college lecturer from Sydney, shot to fame in August when failed to attain any factors on the Paris Olympics in routines that included a “kangaroo” dance. The next month, the World DanceSport Federation issued a press release to “present readability” on why Raygun had managed to high the game’s newest world rankings.
Their clarification revealed that the methodology for the rankings have been based mostly on every athlete’s high 4 performances inside the previous 12 months — however excludes Olympic occasions together with the Paris Video games and Olympic qualifier sequence occasions in Shanghai and Budapest.
Earlier this month, the breaker made headlines as soon as once more when stories emerged that she had introduced her retirement from the game.
She later went on the file to make clear that she would now not be competing, although not retiring from breaking solely.
