Australian B-Woman Raygun wasn’t afraid to look a bit silly on a worldwide stage — and that’s earned her at the least one well-known fan.
Adele shouted out the Australian breakdancer’s viral routine whereas acting at her residency in Munich on Saturday, August 10.
“It’s all that me and my associates have been speaking about,” Adele mentioned of the dancer’s unconventional strikes. “I feel it’s the perfect factor that’s occurred on the Olympics, your entire time.”
Adele is busy in the course of a month-long stint at a specifically constructed outside area within the Bavarian capital, however that clearly hasn’t stopped her from taking within the Summer time Olympics.
“I didn’t even know that breakdancing was even an Olympic sport today. I feel that’s f–king incredible,” she mentioned. “I can’t work out if it was a joke … In case you haven’t seen it, please go away the present and Google it.”
The dancer, whose actual identify is Rachael Gunn, got here beneath fireplace after shedding her three Olympic breaking matches by a rating of 54-0. At completely different factors, the college lecturer appeared to do toe touches whereas mendacity on her facet and danced across the flooring, imitating a kangaroo.
After the competition, Gunn shared a photograph to Instagram with a quote encouraging followers that they don’t must “be afraid to be completely different.”
“Go on the market and signify your self, you by no means know the place that’s gonna take you,” she shared.
Gunn relayed an analogous message to reporters after her loss. “What I needed to do was come out right here and do one thing new and completely different and inventive — that’s my power, my creativity,” she mentioned. “I used to be by no means going to beat these women on what they do finest, the dynamic and the ability strikes, so I needed to maneuver in a different way, be creative and inventive as a result of what number of probabilities do you get in a lifetime to try this on a world stage?”
Staff Australia head Anna Meares defended Raygun after her efficiency went viral.
“I really like Rachael, and I feel that what has occurred on social media with trolls and keyboard warriors, and taking these feedback and giving them airtime, has been actually disappointing,” the chef de mission mentioned in a press convention on Saturday. “Raygun is a completely liked member of this Olympic crew. She has represented the Olympic crew, the Olympic spirit with nice enthusiasm. And I completely love her braveness. I really like her character, and I really feel very disillusioned for her, that she has come beneath the assault that she has.”