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Raygun: Rachael Gunn retires from breaking after Olympic backlash

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Rachael Gunn retires from breaking after Olympic backlash to her performance at Paris Olympics .

The 37-year-old university lecturer's routine catapulted her to global attention and ridicule.

She failed to get on the scoreboard in all three of her competition rounds in August .

Gunn received a torrent of violent messages after the Olympics and an anonymous petition demanding she apologise.

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informal

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English

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49

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possibly offensive

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short-lived

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