Indigenous community leader and sports administrator, Professor Megan Davis, has weighed into the debate surrounding Australia's disastrous effort in Olympic breakdancing, suggesting competitor Rachel Gunn got "zero points on purpose".

Professor Davis, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW and a champion of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, said the performance by "Raygun", an academic with an interest in the culture of breackdancing, was "disrespectful to other competitors".

"Getting zero points on purpose in three rounds for an academic study subsidised by the taxpayer... isn't funny and isn't 'having a go'," Professor Davis, who is also a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission, wrote on social media.

"I'm glad most ­Aussies aren't buying the Kool-Aid."

Professor Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman of the Barunggam Nation, suggested lionising Gunn as a character who had a go is "totally mainstream media-driven narrative".

"Cos they see themselves in her. Affluent, comfortable life, educated, not a care in the world, nothing matters really, what fun, what a fun Aussie gal, chortle chortle."

The Australian has reported that while the Australian Olympic Committee paid for Gunn's flights to and from Paris, she received no financial support from the Australian Sports Commission. Her only known public grant came in late 2022, $20,278 in funding for leading a research study titled Spaces for Street Dance.

Gunn booked her place in Paris by winning the inaugural WDSF (World DanceSport Federation) Oceania Breaking Championships at Sydney Town Hall in October 2023 against 14 other female entrants.

However, the World DanceSport Federation is a ballroom dancing organisation with no real connection to breakdancing scenes anywhere in the world, including Australia.

Neha Madhok, co-founder of the political advocacy group Democracy in Colour, wrote on twitter that actual breakdancers had been overlooked because of the whiteness of Australian sport and Australian attitudes.

"There are incredible dancers in places like Western Sydney (just one example) where Black and brown people are honing their skills and their craft in arenas not recognised by establishment institutions. This is a reflection on the whiteness of Australian sport, and of Australian attitudes. 'We could have sent incredible people, the talent is absolutely there, but you have to go to where people are," she wrote.

"(It's) such a shame that once again, Australia sends a mediocre white person to represent us on the global stage because we cbf finding the real talent amongst First Nations people and PoC."

What the world needs to understand is that Raygun represents a very specific and uniquely Australian White Woman ™️ in academia. One who is so intent on 'decolonising' that she's done a full loop back round to colonising again

— Néha 🍉🏳️‍🌈 (@MadhokNeha) August 11, 2024

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended Gunn, saying she "had a crack".

"That is in the Australian tradition of people having a go. She's had a go representing our country, and that's a good thing," he told reporters.