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Think you can beat an Olympic breakdancer in a battle? Want to win $15,000?
Well, have I got just the opportunity for you!
Australian Olympic sensation Rachel Gunn, AKA Raygun, has teamed with Aussie website Finder to challenge all comers.
The website is offering $5,000 to the top individual and $10,000 to the best team who is selected to have danced better to a common track titled Finder Beat.
In a video advertising the contest, Raygun lays down some sick (beauty is in the eye of the beholder) moves before challenging competitors to submit their own videos.
Finder is a comparison website where users can compare products in over 100 categories. Those categories include credit cards, home loans, mobile phone plans and plenty of others.
Raygun rose to fame (infamy?) with her routine at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, which led to allegations that she obtained her Olympic spot by nefarious means.
She’s since responded to those allegations, however, and defended the work she put in to make it to Paris.
“The conspiracy theories were just awful,” she said. “That was really upsetting, because it wasn’t just people that didn’t understand breaking and were just angry about my performance.
“It was people that are now attacking our reputation and our integrity. And none of them were grounded in any kind of facts. People still don’t believe the truth, but … I think that’s just going to be part of our reality, unfortunately.”
Gunn also defended her performance in Paris, which was awkward to say the very least.
“I knew that I was going to get beaten, and I knew that people were not going to understand my style and what I was going to do,” she added. “The odds were against me, that’s for sure.”
The odds were certainly against her. Much in the way that the odds would also be against me (5’8, 165) in Olympic basketball.
Surely, someone in Australia, a nation of over 27 million people, can outdo her, right?