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It has been nearly two weeks since Australian b-girl Raygun stunned the world with her breakdancing routines that led to her lost a combined 54-0 across three breakdancing matches but the world is not ready to move on from Raygun just yet as the memes, reactions, news, and TikToks keep rolling in.
The latest thing to go viral surrounding Dr. Rachel Gunn (aka ‘Raygun‘) who had a Ph.D. with a focus on breakdancing is this routine from former world champion synchronized swimmer Kristina Makushenko who recreated Gunn’s b-girl routine in the pool and nailed it from start to finish.
That same performance has also gone viral on Reddit in the past hour or two. Makushenko also hit this dance in the pool but it pales in comparison to her take on Raygun’s breaking routine:
Kristina Makushenko is a Russian synchronized swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2009 World Championships in Serbia, a combined 5 gold medals across competitions in 2010, and another 2 gold medals at the European Junior Championships in 2011. She’s incredibly accomplished in her field and it’s pretty excellent to see her paying homage to other sports like this.
For her part, Raygun has addressed the global response to her breakdancing routines in Paris. She called the hate she has received ‘devastating‘ but that hate didn’t seem to stop her from staying in Europe for a trip after the Olympics were over instead of returning with her Australian teammates.
Things got so bad for Raygun that the Australian Prime Minister even commented on her performance. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said “good on her and a big shout out to her. That is in the Australian tradition of people having a go. She’s had a go representing our country, and that’s a good thing.”
He later added “not every athlete who gets off that plane is bringing home a medal, but every single one of them is worth their weight in gold. They have just done Australia proud and they’ve done their best. Whether they’ve won gold, silver, bronze or just put in a performance, they’ve all done us proud.”