Raygun gives surprise performance of her viral Olympics moves days after announcing her retirement
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- Raygun performed with Australian star Tones and I after announcing her retirement.
- Rachael Gunn faced criticism for her Olympics routine, which she said impacted her decision to step away.
- Her new performance sparked speculation about a potential return to breakdancing.
Australian breakdancer Rachael "Raygun" Gunn performed her viral Olympics routine onstage days after announcing her retirement.
Gunn, 37, appeared onstage with Australian singer Tones and I while the star sang "Dance With Me" at her concert in Melbourne on Saturday.
Tones and I — whose real name is Toni Watson — is best known for her 2019 single, "Dance Monkey."
In a video of the routine posted to Watson's Instagram, Gunn showed off some of the same moves that received criticism following her elimination from the round-robin stage of the breaking competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"Raygun the most beautiful kindest full of life human I have met. It was an honour to celebrate you last night," Watson wrote in the caption of the video.
"Thank you for sharing the stage with me and bringing smiles to so many faces. You always have a friend in me. Tones," she added.
In another video shared to Gunn's Instagram Story, she appears to teach Watson's dancers some of her viral moves, including one that Olympics fans compared to a kangaroo hop.
The performance came days after Gunn said she was now just dancing "in my living room."
"I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems a really difficult thing for me to do now, to approach a battle," Gunn told 2DayFM, a Sydney radio station, on Wednesday. "I still dance, and I still break, but that's like, in my living room with my partner."
"The level of scrutiny that's going to be there, and people will be filming it, and it will go online, and it's just not going to mean the same thing, it's not going to be the same experience because of everything that's at stake," she added.
However, Gunn's recent performance has left fans wondering if she has changed her mind about retirement.
Gunn reposted a video from one audience member who wrote that the Olympian "is not retiring."
"She's loud, proud, and what a routine," they added.
Representatives for Gunn did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, which was sent outside regular business hours.