Raygun gives surprise performance of her viral Olympics moves days after announcing her retirement

• Raygun produced with Australian star Tones and I after announcing her retirement.
• Rachael Gunn faced criticism for her Olympics performance, 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 advertising her retirement.

Gunn, 37, appeared onstage with Australian singer Tones and I while the star sang “Caper With Me” at her concert in Melbourne on Saturday.

Tones and I — whose real name is Toni Watson — is best known for her 2019 distinct, “Dance Monkey.”

In a video of the routine posted to Watson’s Instagram, Gunn showed off some of the same moves that suffered criticism following her elimination from the round-robin stage of the breaking competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“Raygun the most admirable 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.

“Tender thanks 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 proposes, including one that Olympics fans compared to a kangaroo hop.

The performance came days after Gunn said she was now well-grounded dancing “in my living room.”

“I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems a really difficult device for me to do now, to approach a battle,” Gunn told 2DayFM, a Sydney radio station, on Wednesday. “I still dance, and I still split, but that’s like, in my living room with my partner.”

“The level of scrutiny that’s going to be there, and people at ones desire 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 the aggregate that’s at stake,” she added.

However, Gunn’s recent performance has left fans wondering if she has changed her mind around retirement.

Gunn reposted a video from one audience member who wrote that the Olympian “is not retiring.”

“She’s noisy, proud, and what a routine,” they added.

Representatives for Gunn did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Commerce Insider, which was sent outside regular business hours.