Viral break dancer Raygun honored with statue after Olympics cringefest

Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has received her latest honor following her infamous performance at the Paris Olympics.Gunn shot to international prominence following her widely mocked display in break dancing’s first and likely last appearance at an Olympic Games.Upon her return to Australia, the 37-year-old learned she had somehow become the No.1 ranked breaker in the world.Now, Gunn has been immortalized — for a while, anyway — in a statue that surfaced this week in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote.While it’s more papier mache than bronze, the statue depicts Gunn’s signature “kangaroo” move and stands proudly on a local nature strip.Created by an unknown artist, the piece was initially unearthed by a caller on Melbourne radio station 3AW.“Following on from her huge success of breakdancing in Paris, Raygun is now dancing in the streets of the north,” the caller said.When he was shown an image of the statue, 3AW host Ross Stevenson couldn’t help but be impressed.“That is amazing,” he said.

“That is awesome.Someone’s put up a statue of Raygun.“Is that in someone’s backyard or in a public thoroughfare?”The caller replied: “It’s in a public thoroughfare, on the nature strip.”Stevenson added: “That is outstanding.“Look at the balance they’ve managed to achieve there with that statue.

How do you do that?”The statue has been compiled with the help of some rubber gloves, a tracksuit and even an Olympic flag.Raygun was catapulted into the world No.1 ranking thanks to the 1000 points she claimed for winning the WDSF Oceania Championship which booked her a spot in the Olympics.Despite her new found home as the world No.

1, Raygun stated she would be stepping away from competition in her first sit-down interview.“I don’t think I’ll be competing for a while.Not really wanting to be in the spotlight, breaking, competing,” she said on The Project last month.“It’s been nice.

It’s been a bit of a process to try and sta...