Australian B-Girl Raygun wasn’t afraid to look just a little silly on a worldwide stage — and that’s earned her at the least one famous fan.
Adele shouted out the Australian breakdancer’s viral routine while acting at her residency in Munich on Saturday, August 10.
“It’s all that me and my friends have been talking about,” Adele said of the dancer’s unconventional moves. “I believe it’s the most effective thing that’s happened on the Olympics, the whole time.”
Adele is busy in the course of a month-long stint at a specially built outdoor arena within the Bavarian capital, but that clearly hasn’t stopped her from taking within the Summer Olympics.
“I didn’t even know that breakdancing was even an Olympic sport lately. I believe that’s f–king unbelievable,” she said. “I can’t work out if it was a joke … Should you haven’t seen it, please leave the show and Google it.”
The dancer, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, got here under fire after losing her three Olympic breaking matches by a rating of 54-0. At different points, the university lecturer appeared to do toe touches while lying on her side and danced across the floor, imitating a kangaroo.
After the competition, Gunn shared a photograph to Instagram with a quote encouraging fans that they don’t must “be afraid to be different.”
“Go on the market and represent yourself, you never know where that’s gonna take you,” she shared.
Gunn relayed an identical message to reporters after her loss. “What I desired to do was come out here and do something latest and different and inventive — that’s my strength, my creativity,” she said. “I used to be never going to beat these girls on what they do best, the dynamic and the ability moves, so I desired to move in another way, be artistic and inventive because what number of possibilities do you get in a lifetime to try this on a world stage?”
Team Australia head Anna Meares defended Raygun after her performance went viral.
“I like Rachael, and I believe that what has occurred on social media with trolls and keyboard warriors, and taking those comments and giving them airtime, has been really disappointing,” the chef de mission said in a press conference on Saturday. “Raygun is a fully loved member of this Olympic team. She has represented the Olympic team, the Olympic spirit with great enthusiasm. And I absolutely love her courage. I like her character, and I feel very disenchanted for her, that she has come under the attack that she has.”