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Australia’s Olympians returned home Wednesday and mounted a resolute defense of their breakdancing colleague against “awful” critics, comics and keyboard warriors.
The athletes, fresh from a national record 53 Olympic medal trawl, were asked about absent colleague b-girl Rachael “Raygun” Gunn.
After winning no votes from Paris judges, 36-year-old Gunn has been mocked and ridiculed for her allegedly lackluster breakdancing skills.
Commentators have questioned how Gunn qualified for the games, with some of her more ill-tempered critics calling her a national embarrassment.
Her kangaroo-imitating moves and slightly passe green Australian Olympic track suit have been parodied by late-night US television host Jimmy Fallon.
