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Watch: Australian Breakdancer Raygun Announces Retirement After Olympic Backlash

Remember when Raygun triggered the world?

For roughly three minutes during the 2024 Paris Olympics, viewers of the Summer Games’ inaugural women’s breaking competition were quick to conclude that the Australian B-girl wasn’t bringing nearly enough to the floor.

And it wasn’t just the internet that found her moves lacking.

Raygun, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, lost her three first-round battles by a total score of 54-0.

She seemingly took her last-place showing in stride, telling reporters afterward that, since she was “never going to beat these girls on what they do best, the dynamic and the power moves,” her intention had been to leave her mark on the competition “in a different way.”

Fair enough, but then why was she sent to represent Australia at such a make-or-break moment?

Raygun: Breaking Badly, the latest installment of Netflix‘s sports scandal docuseries Untold, unpacks Gunn’s journey to the Olympics, the aftermath and what life has been like since for the now-38-year-old academic.

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Because while she also won fans with her spirited approach to breaking, the backlash was admittedly “pretty devastating,” as she said a week after she competed.

And, a few months later, Gunn announced her retirement from competitive breaking.

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“I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now, to approach a battle,” she said on the Jimmy & Nath Show in November 2024 when asked if she hoped to return to the Olympics. “I mean, I still dance and I still break but, that’s like in my living room with my partner.”

Incidentally, breaking isn’t on the lineup for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. And no, not because Raygun ruined it for the next generation.

Here’s a refresher on what went down at the Paris Olympics, plus a look at the moves Gunn made next:

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How did Rachael Gunn, a.k.a. B-Girl Raygun, qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics?

While conspiracy theories abounded as to how Gunn secured her spot in Paris, the top-ranked B-girl in Australia for several years running simply won her country’s qualifier, the 2023 World DanceSport Federation Oceania Breaking Championship.

“And by winning that competition, I got the direct spot to Paris,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald before the Olympics. “That was a really intense, really stressful but really amazing competition.”

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What was Raygun’s score at the Paris Olympics?

The first-ever Olympic breaking competition started with 16 B-girls facing off in a round robin format.

Raygun battled U.S. breaker Logistx (Logan Edra), Syssy (Sya Dembélé) from France and eventual silver medalist Nicka (Dominika Banevi) of Lithuania, losing 18-0 to all three.

While critics were unimpressed by Gunn’s signature kangaroo hop and thought she was way more flail than roll, head judge Martin Gilian—a.k.a. B-Boy MGbility—was more diplomatic.

“We have five criteria in the competitive judging system and just her level was maybe not as high as the other competitors,” he explained afterward. “That doesn’t mean that she did really bad. She did her best…Unfortunately for her, the other B-girls were better.”

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What did Raygun say about her Paris Olympics performance?

Once she realized that it wasn’t just her 54-0 score doing the talking, Gunn tried to explain where she was coming from as the acknowledged “underdog.”

“I wanted to move differently,” she said afterward, per ESPN, noting she knew going in that she didn’t have the dynamism of her fellow B-girls. “Be artistic and creative because how many chances do you get that in a lifetime to do that on an international stage?”

In hindsight, though, Gunn did feel unfairly targeted.

“The energy and vitriol that people had was pretty alarming,” she told Australia’s Channel 10 TV a month after the Olympics. “The conspiracy theories were just awful. It was people that are now attacking our reputation and our integrity, and none of them were grounded in any kind of facts.”

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How did B-Girl Raygun become No. 1 in the world after the Paris Olympics?

Breakers earn points from competitions that expire after a year. But no one earned points from the Olympics, or from May 2024 Olympic qualifiers held in Shanghai and Budapest—and events “were intentionally not held” between Dec. 31, 2023, and the Olympics so the athletes could focus on qualifying without added pressure, according to the WDSF.

So, no one could catch Gunn after she earned 1,000 points for winning the Oceania title in October 2023, making her No. 1 when the WDSF released the new world rankings in September 2024.

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Why isn’t breaking an event at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?

Breaking already wasn’t on the 2028 Summer Olympics program by the time it debuted in Paris, so its exclusion had nothing to do with its reception in 2024.

“It was disappointing that it was decided before we’d even had a chance to show it so I think that was possibly a little premature,” Gunn told reporters in Paris. “I wonder if they’re kicking themselves now.”

“But,” she added, “it’s not the end for breaking, the breaking culture is so strong.”

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Where is B-Girl Raygun now?

Reflecting on the Olympics in Raygun: Breaking Badly, now streaming, Gunn shared what her therapist told her before the Games.

“She was like, ‘What’s the worst that can happen?'” she recalled. When the breakdancer suggested that “the whole world could laugh” at her,” the therapist replied, “‘Do you think that’s reasonable?'”

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After that came to pass, Gunn said in November 2024 that she would retire from competition, explaining on Jimmy & Nath, “People will be filming it and it will go online, and it’s just not going to mean the same thing.”

She stayed on as a lecturer in media and creative industries at Sydney’s Macquarie University until this past February, later telling the Sydney Morning Herald that she was pursuing public speaking opportunities.

Gunn has also been in some “small local jams” with a crew of “up-and-coming B-girls,” she told People in August, sharing, “It’s been really nice to just go back in and support the scene and be part of the community.”

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And watching Breaking Badly, she and her husband Samuel Free were “reminded of how insane it was, how absurd it was,” Gunn reflected. “So, it was really cool to see me get through it at the end.”

Meanwhile, not every scandal got its own documentary, but don’t forget that the 2024 Paris Olympics were awash in controversy:

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Jordan Chiles Medal ControversyAfter the U.S. gymnast won bronze in the women’s gymnastics individual floor exercise final, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Romanian finalists Ana Maria Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who came in fourth and fifth place, filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.The Romanian side argued that an inquiry that Chiles’ coach had submitted at the competition that had led to the athlete’s score to be raised by 0.1 of a point should not have been granted because it was submitted four seconds past a one-minute deadline.The court agreed and ruled that the U.S. athlete’s initial score of 13.666 would be reinstated, a decision also adopted later by the International Gymnastics Federation, which said in a statement that it had modified the rankings to put Barbosu in third place.The International Olympics Committee then announced that it “will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu (Romania),” adding, “We are in touch with the NOC of Romania to discuss the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC regarding the return of the bronze medal.”The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it plans to appeal the decision.

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Canada Boots Women’s Soccer CoachThe 2024 Olympics had barely begun when Bev Priestman, head coach of the Canadian women’s soccer team, was removed from her post by Canada Soccer after her staff was accused of using drones to spy on the New Zealand team ahead of their group stage match.”Additional information has come to our attention regarding previous drone use against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” Canada Soccer CEO and general secretary Kevin Blue said in a July 25 statement explaining the decision. “In light of these new revelations, Canada Soccer has made the decision to suspend…Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and until the completion of our recently announced independent external review.” Priestman apologized, saying in a statement, “I am absolutely heartbroken for the players, and I would like to apologize from the bottom of my heart for the impact this situation has had on all of them.”The team, which won gold in Tokyo, is “a group of people who care very much about sportsmanship and integrity,” she continued. “As the leader of the team on the field, I want to take accountability, and I plan to fully co-operate with the [Canadian Soccer Association] investigation.”

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South Korea Mistaken for North Korea During the Opening CeremonyAs the boat carrying athletes from South Korea came into view during the July 26 Opening Ceremony, they were incorrectly announced in both French and English as being from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—which is North Korea.South Korea, meanwhile, is the Republic of Korea.In a July 27 statement, the International Olympic Committee noted, “We deeply apologize for the mistake that occurred when introducing the Korean team during the Opening Ceremony broadcast.”IOC President Thomas Bach also called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to apologize, per the chief executive’s office, which relayed that Yoon told Bach the people of South Korea were “very shocked and embarrassed” by the mistake. An IOC spokesperson called the error an “operational mistake” that was “clearly deeply regrettable.”Parade order is determined alphabetically according to the host nation’s language—minus Greece, which always goes first as the home of the first Olympics, and the host nation goes last. South Korea was the 48th country in the Parade of Nations, while North Korea was 153rd.

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The Wrong Kind of SplashBritish commentator Bob Ballard was pulled from Eurostar’s Olympics coverage for making a remark that was widely derided as sexist after Australian swimmers Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris won gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.”Well, the women just finishing off,” Ballard said following the race. “You know what women are like…hanging around, doing their makeup.”His co-commentator Lizzie Simmonds replied, “Outrageous, Bob. Some of the men are doing that as well.”Calling his comment “inappropriate,” Eurostar said in a July 29 statement Ballard had been removed with “immediate effect” from further coverage.The veteran sportscaster promptly apologized.”The comments I made during the Australian freestyle relay victory ceremony on Saturday have caused some offence,” he wrote on X. “It was never my intention to upset or belittle anyone and, if I did, I apologise. I am a massive advocate of women’s sport.”

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A Rumor That Went Off the Deep EndAfter speculation that a too-shallow pool inside La Defense Arena was responsible for slower-than-expected times in swimming, the athletes torpedoed the idea that the water wasn’t deep enough to smash records.”I think it’s totally a myth,” Team USA’s Regan Smith, who swam away from Paris with five medals, told NBCOlympics.com after she and Gretchen Walsh, Lilly King and Torri Huske set a new world record in the women’s 4×100-meter medley. “I think at first people were very aware of [the lack of new records]… So, I think that caused some chatter, like, ‘Oh, is it the pool that’s doing this?’ But I think as the meet went on, people got used to it, and then I think they got more comfortable with it, and then we started seeing some really fast swims.”Added four-time medalist Walsh, “I think much of what the Olympics is, and what it represents, makes any pool that it’s at feel kind of slow. Because you have so much pressure on yourself that it is hard at your 100 percent best.”

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Swimmer Sent Home for “Indiscipline”Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira was sent home after, according to the Brazilian Olympic Committee, she committed two “acts of indiscipline”: She left the Olympic Village with boyfriend/teammate Gabriel Santos without permission, the BOC said, after acting “in a disrespectful and aggressive manner” in response to a “technical decision made by the Brazilian Swimming Team committee” regarding the 4x100m freestyle relay.In a video titled “How a communication failure destroyed my Olympic dream,” Vieira lamented what happened but said, “everything is going to be solved at the right time.”

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Another Swimmer Kicked Out for “Inappropriate Atmosphere”The Paraguayan Olympic Committee asked swimmer Luana Alonso to leave the Games, alleging in a statement that she had created an “inappropriate atmosphere at the Heart of Team Paraguay.””We thank her for proceeding as instructed,” the statement continued, “as it was of her own free will that she did not spend the night in the Athletes’ Village.”The Southern Methodist University student had seemingly already returned to Texas when she wrote on Instagram Story (translated from Spanish) Aug. 5, “I just wanted to make it clear that I was never removed or expelled from anywhere, stop spreading false information. I don’t want to give any statement but I’m not going to let lies affect me either.”

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MyKayla Skinner vs. Simone BilesSimone Biles had already let it be known what she thought of Tokyo teammate MyKayla Skinner‘s criticism of the U.S. gymnastics team selected to go to Paris—and Skinner had apologized for saying in a since-deleted video that “the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be” and that “obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard.”But after the 2024 squad won team gold, Biles captioned a photo of the athletes, “Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions”—an apparent jab at Skinner’s original comment.On Aug. 6, Skinner reiterated in an Instagram video that she had “poorly” articulated her original point. But, she added, the cyberbullying she and her family had been subject to—fallout from her cyberfeud with Biles—had gotten out of hand.She pleaded with the seven-time gold medalist “to please put a stop to this. Please ask your followers to stop.”

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Beam In a Little Noise, PleaseNeither Biles nor Suni Lee medaled in beam this year after both gymnasts fell off the apparatus during their final routines.Afterward, Biles commented on the strangely quiet environment during their penultimate event in Paris.”It was really weird and awkward,” the athlete, who earned bronze on beam in Tokyo, told the Associated Press. “We’ve asked several times if we can have some music, or some background noise. I’m not really sure what happened there, but yeah, not our favorite. None of us liked it.”In response to the GOAT’s complaint, an International Gymnastics Federation said the atmosphere was “part of the sport presentation plan at Paris 2024.”Lee noted that “the pressure was definitely on” and “a lot of people were definitely feeling it.”She wondered if it was so quiet the nearby photographers could hear her breathing. “It adds to the stress,” Lee said, “just because it’s like you, yes, you’re the only one up there. So I was feeling the pressure.”

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Gymnastics Scoring ShockerJordan Chiles seemingly finished out of the running for a medal when she completed her floor exercise final routine and received a score of 13.666, Romania’s Ana Barbosu ahead of her in third place with a score of 13.700.But after Team USA filed a score inquiry on Chiles’ behalf and her performance was further reviewed by the judges, her start value was increased by one-tenth of a point. As a result, her score was subsequently bumped up to 13.766. Meaning, she got the bronze and Barbosu—who was already waving her country’s flag in celebration—left the arena in tears.Afterward, Barbosu posted a video of herself competing and wrote, “Thank you to everyone who encouraged me before, during, and after the competition.”

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5,000 Meters Scoring ShockerMedal adjustments haven’t been confined to the gymnastics arena.Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon was initially disqualified for seeming to jostle Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia during the women’s 5,000 meters at the Stade de France on Aug. 5, negating her second-place finish.”I have never seen anything like that, in an Olympic final that went on for so long,” commentator Kara Goucher, a two-time Olympian, said on the broadcast, noting that the two women also appeared to exchange heated words. “You see a little bit of elbow, you see a little bit of frustration, but that was many strides and scolding.”It wasn’t until the wee hours of Aug. 6 that Kipyegon found out her silver medal had been reinstated. The Olympic Jury of Appeal ruled that, while there had been “significant contact” between her and Tsegay, “the incident did not warrant a disqualification.”With that, Italy’s Nadia Battocletti—the fourth-place finisher bumped into bronze position by the disqualification—was re-relegated to fourth.

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Swimming Disqualifications That StoodTwo athletes’ hopes of a medal were dashed when they unwittingly broke rules mid-swim, meaning they didn’t even know they were out until they finished their races.Great Britain’s Luke Greenbank finished first in his 200-meter backstroke heat but was disqualified for staying underwater for further than the maximum 15 meters after first diving in.”Win or lose I’ve always been my own harshest critic but sometimes you’ve just got to take it as it comes,” he wrote on Instagram Aug. 1. “I can take pride in the fact that I know I was in great shape coming into these games after a tough few years, but this will motivate me to come back stronger.”A technical error also knocked Alex Walsh off the 200-meter individual medley podium after she finished in the bronze position. As she approached the wall during the last leg of her backstroke, she made an illegal turn by starting to flip out of position before she tapped the wall and launched into her breaststroke.”Still proud,” Walsh wrote on Instagram Aug. 6, thanking her supporters a few days after the race. “Despite the DQ, this Olympics has been an experience that has left me feeling happy and fulfilled, and I will cherish that forever. After all, everything happens for a reason and there is so much more to be excited about for me in this sport.”

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Something in the Water?Despite $1.53 billion having been budgeted to clean up the perennially polluted Seine, reports swirled for months leading up to the Paris Games about whether it would be safe enough to hold the swimming leg of the triathlons and the 10-kilometer marathons in the river.Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo went for a swim July 17 and declared France’s most famous body of water good to go—but it’s been kind of a s–t show since the Olympics began.On Monday, July 29, swims for the triathletes to familiarize themselves with the Seine were canceled, officials citing poor water quality levels caused by run-off from the weekend’s heavy rains (which noticeably started during the July 26 Opening Ceremony).The men’s triathlon was then postponed a day and rescheduled to follow the women’s event on July 31 after organizers deemed bacteria levels too high for a safe swim.Both triathlons were held July 31, day-of tests finding that E. coli and intestinal enterococci levels were low enough to qualify the water as “excellent quality,” per the European Union’s Bathing Water Directive.But speculation that the water wasn’t safe resumed after two athletes who competed in the triathlon dropped out of the mixed-relay competition, citing respective illnesses (neither of which have been definitively linked to swimming in the Seine).The women’s and men’s 10km are still scheduled for Aug. 8 and 9, but practices were canceled Aug. 6 after tests showed bacteria levels were once again too high.

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Australian Field Hockey Player ArrestedAustralian field hockey player Tom Craig publicly apologized after being arrested for attempting to buy cocaine in Paris two days after the team’s quarterfinal loss to the Netherlands.”I would firstly like to apologize for what has occurred over the last 24 hours,” he said at an Aug. 7 press conference, per the Australian Associated Press. “My actions are my own and by no way reflect the values of my family, my teammates, my friends, the sport and the Australian Olympic team. I have embarrassed you all and I’m truly sorry.”In a statement, an Australian Olympic Committee official called Tom “a good person who had made a poor decision” and said the team would support him if he needed help. But, the official added, the athlete was losing all of his remaining Olympic privileges, effective immediately.

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