Raygun Issues Apology to Breakdance Community Following Viral Paris Olympics Performance
The 37-year-old became an online sensation after breakdancing at the sporting event, in which she scored zero points.
Raygun has apologized to the breaking community following her viral performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In an interview with Australia’s show, The Project, she said she is “very sorry for the backlash that the community has experienced” following the Olympics. She also said she takes “a different approach” to breaking, per CNN.
Raygun added, “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 said when she qualified to compete at the Olympics, she was “super nervous.”
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“I knew that I was going to get beaten, and I knew that people were not going to understand my style and what I was going to do,” she explained. “The odds were against me, that’s for sure.”
During August’s competition, the 37-year-old scored zero points against the US, France, and Lithuania. Her performance became a viral sensation online, and many memes and jokes were made at her expense. She later said receiving "so much hate" was "pretty devastating."
Adele also commented on Raygun’s dancing, both seemingly praising the dancer and calling her “fucking funny.”
“I can't work out if it was a joke, but either way it has made me very, very happy,” Adele said on stage during her concert residency in Munich, Germany. “And me and my friends have been shitting ourselves laughing for nearly 24 hours. But I just wanted to know if you've seen it.”
