Raygun: Breaking Badly, review: The Olympian who brought ‘shame’ on Australia – and what she did next - The Athletic

The Australian breakdancer was an object of online derision at the 2024 Paris Games but has found inner peace from an unlikely source

In the lead-up to the 2024 Olympic Games, Australian breakdancer Raygun spoke to her therapist about her overwhelming concerns that she was not good enough to compete. “What’s the worst that could happen?” her therapist questioned. “The whole world could laugh at me?” Raygun replied. “Do you think that’s reasonable?” the therapist asked back. Raygun, real name Rachael Gunn, laughs as she recounts this exchange a few years later in Raygun: Breaking Badly, the latest instalment in Netflix’s Untold series of sports documentaries. It tells the story of Raygun’s journey from art student to…

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