Australian B-Girl Reagan Says She’s Done With Competitive Breakdancing

Breakdancing will not become an Olympic sport in 2028. And even if that were the case, the woman who is arguably the most famous b-girl in the world wouldn’t participate.

Rachel Gunn Australian breakdancer, better known as Raganannounced this week that she would no longer compete in elite competition after widely ridiculed for her unorthodox daily routine at the Paris Games this year.

During an appearance on Australian radio “The Jimmy and Nat ShowOn Tuesday, Gunn was asked if she would ever want to compete in the Olympics again.

“No,” she laughed. “Nooo! No!”

The 37-year-old university teacher said her competitive breakdancing days were over.

“I still break, but I don’t compete,” she said. “I won’t compete anymore. No. No.

According to Gunn, this was not part of the plan before the Olympics. From 2021 to 2021, she represented her country at the World Breaking Championships. 2023 and qualified for the Paris Games by winning the Oceania Breaking Championships in October 2023.

However, in Paris, Gunn was outscored 54–0 by her opponents and did not advance beyond the first round. Her unconventional dance moves, especially those in which she imitated a kangaroo, went viral as Gunn became a highlight for the likes of the late-night TV host. Jimmy Fallon and many others.

More than 57,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for an investigation into the selection process that allowed Gunn to compete. The website eventually removed the petition after it “was flagged as misinformation and was reviewed according to our community guidelines,” the site said in a statement.

In September Gunn apologized to the Australian breakdancing community for the backlash he received after her performance.

“Yeah, I was certainly going to continue to compete (after the Olympics),” Gunn said during her radio appearance this week, “but I think it’s (seemingly) really difficult to approach the battle now. I mean I’m still dancing and I’m still breaking down. But, you know, it’s like being in my living room with my partner.”

She added: “I think the level of scrutiny that will be there and people will film it and it will be posted online and it won’t mean the same thing. It won’t be the same experience because everything is at stake.”

On Thursday, Gunn appeared on Australian talk show “The Project” to clarify that she is not retiring from the sport, as some news outlets have reported.

“Not retired,” she said. “I never said the word ‘retire’.

Instead, Gunn said she would no longer compete in “elite competition and the Olympics.”

“I’ll still dance,” she said. “I’ll still go to community jams. I’m still probably going to come down and go to community jams and stuff like that.”