Raygun: Rachel Gunn quits breaking due to backlash at Olympics

“I just didn’t have any control over how people saw me or who I was,” she told local radio station 2DayFM on Wednesday.

“Of course, I was going to continue to compete, but now it seems to me that it is very difficult.

“I think there will be a level of scrutiny there and people will film it and it will be posted online.”

After the Olympics, Gunn received a flood of hateful messages and was the subject of an anonymous petition demanding an apology. It falsely accused her and her husband of manipulating her selection to the detriment of other Australian talent.

Olympic officials vigorously defended her, but her performance was divided among the revolutionary community, with some saying she was ridiculing the sport.