‘It doesn’t reflect us’: Global mockery of Raygun’s Paris Olympics performance affecting Australian scene, local B-girls say

While there have been supportive reactions to Raygun’s Olympics performance, there has been negative repercussions for Australia’s breaking community. ‘We’ve got B-girls in tears about it,’ says Leah Clark. Photograph: Johnny Chaing

For Australia’s B-girls, it’s been a tough 72 hours. As Rachael “Raygun” Gunn went viral after her performance at the Paris Olympics, the tight-knit breaking community at home has been dealing with the fallout.

“It’s really affected us. We’ve got B-girls in tears about it,” says Leah Clark, who has been a B-girl for the last 24 years and runs a dance performance space in Brisbane.