'Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly' is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on September 1, 2026. The series will focus on the journey of the popular academic, Rachael Gunn.
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Add BollywoodShaadis on GoogleNetflix's acclaimed sports anthology Untold returns with its most viral story yet. Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly revisits Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, whose zero-point routine at the Paris 2024 Olympics turned her into an overnight global meme.
From university lecturer to Olympian to internet lightning rod, the hour-long film traces her rise, the avalanche of misinformation, and her fight to reclaim her narrative. Featuring unprecedented access to Gunn and family, it premieres globally on Netflix on September 1, 2026.
Also known as Rachael Louise Gunn, she was born on September 2, 1987, in Hornsby, New South Wales, and grew up as a dance kid, not a sports kid. She trained in ballroom, tap, and jazz, and even competed in ballroom before breaking entered her life.
Rachael Gunn met Samuel Free, a breaker of 10 years, in her early 20s. He introduced her to the culture and later became her husband in 2018 and her coach. She started breaking in her early 2010s, in her mid-twenties, which is late compared to most Olympians. She paused to finish her studies at Macquarie University.
She had done her undergraduate degree in Contemporary Music in 2009, then completed a PhD in Cultural Studies in 2017. Her thesis was titled Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying, looking at how gender is performed and challenged in breaking. After her PhD, she returned to competition in 2018. Known as B-girl Raygun, a portmanteau of her name, she trains 3-4 hours a day.
She rose quickly in the national scene, ranking second in the Australian Open B-girl rankings in 2022 and becoming No.1 in 2023. She represented Australia at three straight World Breaking Championships - Paris 2021, Seoul 2022 and Leuven 2023. She also won multiple national battles.
Her biggest breakthrough came after she won the Oceania Breaking Championships in Sydney in October 2023, beating Molly Chapman aka Holy Molly in the final, which qualified her as Australia's first Olympic B-girl for breaking's Olympic debut at Paris 2024.
At Place de la Concorde on August 9, 2024, Rachael Gunn's Olympic campaign became the most talked-about moment of the Games. She faced B-girls from the USA, France and Lithuania in the round-robin and lost all three battles 18-0, scoring zero points. Her routine included kangaroo hops, the sprinkler and floor wriggling. Her moves were described as original and rooted in creativity over power moves.
Rachael’s clips eventually went viral. Singer Adele called it the best thing at the Olympics at her Munich concert, while social media turned it into endless memes. Some were funny, then the tone shifted to trolling, misinformation and conspiracy theories that her husband Samuel Free had helped her qualify and that she had ties to the selection committee. She defended herself at a press conference, saying,
“I was never going to beat these girls on what they do best, their power moves. What I bring is creativity.”
The fallout was intense. Australia's chef de mission Anna Meares defended her, slamming trolls and keyboard warriors. Gunn herself announced in November 2024 that she was retiring from competitive breaking.
Between 2025 and 2026, Rachael Gunn left academia too, taking voluntary redundancy from Macquarie's Faculty of Arts in February 2026 during department cuts, and later opened a Cameo account. She also made headlines for demanding USD 10,000 from a Sydney comedy club planning Raygun: The Musical, claiming trademark over the name and kangaroo move.
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