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Two summers ago, Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn spent about ninety seconds crawling around a Paris stage and hopping like a kangaroo. That wildly viral moment on the Olympic stage became enough to make her the most famous b-girl on the planet.
Competing as Raygun, she lost all three of her Olympic battles 18-0 and scored a grand total of zero points. Gold medalist Ami Yuasa actually won the gold in the breakdancing category. Outside the breakdancing community, nobody remembers her name. But everyone remembers Raygun.
Raygun says she saw the virality and Internet mob coming. In Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly, out September 1 on Netflix, Gunn says she told her therapist before Paris that her worst fear was the whole world laughing at her. The therapist told her that it was an irrational fear.
So she flew to France and did exactly that, in front of a couple billion people, in a green and gold tracksuit. The kangaroo hop and ensuing performance went on to go mega-viral.
The discourse that followed became its own newscycle. First came the conspiracy theories about how she supposedly rigged the qualifiers to get to Paris at all. Reality TV made handsome offers. Then she offered a $15,000 challenge to anyone who doubted her breakdancing skills. Next came the retirement from “elite” competition, which she quietly walked back to leave herself room for “community jams.” Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 even introduced a way for players to perform her dance in-game.
Next came the cease-and-desist her lawyers fired at a comedian trying to stage Raygun: The Musical, which killed the show days before it opened in Sydney. And somewhere in the middle of all that, the World DanceSport Federation ranked her the number one b-girl on earth.
The fallout outlasted the memes. Macquarie University, where Gunn had lectured for more than a decade after writing a PhD thesis on the culture of breaking, cut her job in a round of layoffs this spring. Then this summer her brother Brendan got a twelve-month prison sentence for his part in an international crypto scam that moved more than $180,000 in suspected fraud money. Her lawyers, meanwhile, are busy protecting the kangaroo hop as her intellectual property. Two years after the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Internet still cannot get enough Raygun.
Through all of it, Gunn has mostly rolled with the punches. She did a glam magazine cover shoot, argued that the world goes a lot harder on “silly women” than it ever would on some male “larrikin” pulling the same moves, and reminded everyone she wasn’t even the oldest breaker in the field. In a CNN interview last week ahead of her Netflix Untold, she said she’s made peace with the whole saga after a lot of therapy, and dropped a line anyone who has ever gone viral for something mortifying should probably keep in their back pocket: online is not the real world.
Netflix is telling Raygun’s side of the story with Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly, out September 1.
It comes from Chapman and Maclain Way, the brothers behind Wild Wild Country, and it’s part of a three-film Untold series that also digs into the complicated legacy of quarterback Vince Young.
The clip below goes back to where it all kicked off: Raygun arriving at the Olympic Village, still just an academic from Sydney who trained in ballroom and jazz long before she ever touched breaking, with zero clue that the next ninety seconds would end up defining the rest of her life.
Here’s a first look at the upcoming documentary, in a clip exclusive to BroBible: