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Viral Olympic Breakdancer Raygun Is Ready for Her Critics: ‘Come at Me’
The film follows Rachael Gunn as she revisits the viral performance, the scoreless rounds and the online claims that followed her Olympic debut.
- On Monday, Netflix released Untold: Raygun, a documentary revisiting the 2024 Paris Olympics where Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun, faced global mockery following her viral performance.
- Following her viral performance, Gunn faced widespread mockery and conspiracy theories, including false allegations that she and her husband, Samuel Free, manipulated the Australian Olympic qualification process to her advantage.
- Regarding the intense scrutiny, Gunn said she "felt like an imposter" and described the period as "really tough" after feeling she was "reduced to a viral meme" by global audiences.
- Filmmakers Chapman and Maclain Way produced the documentary to frame Gunn's story as that of an "ordinary person who had been thrust into these extraordinary circumstances."
- Two years later, Gunn maintains she is "not retired" from breakdancing and is "embracing the chaos," stating, "It's really exciting for me to finally have a voice again" regarding the project.
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Netflix drops very unexpected doc on viral Olympics drama
Raygun at the 2024 Paris Olympics feels like a fever dream, but alas, it really happened. The Australian woman, now 38, was the subject of controversy in the summer of '24 for a multitude of reasons, and now that controversy is set to be broken down in a Netflix documentary. The streaming platform really does […]
Rachael Gunn became a meme after her memorable performance. She had a panic attack before the opening.
"Raygun" was mocked around the world and accused of cheating. Now the Olympic profile speaks out about the upheaval. "I realized that my life as I knew it was over," she says in a new Netflix documentary.
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