Netflix has released the official trailer for Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly, a new documentary examining one of the strangest and most polarising stories to emerge from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
At the centre of the film is Australian breaker and academic Rachael Gunn, better known by her competition name Raygun.
Before Paris, Gunn was already part of Australia’s competitive breaking scene and held a PhD focused on gender and Sydney’s breaking culture.
Then she became an Olympian.
Breaking made its Olympic debut at Paris 2024, and Gunn earned Australia’s women’s place after winning the Oceania Breaking Championships.
But virtually nothing could have prepared her for what happened next.
Her unconventional Olympic routines spread across social media almost immediately, with clips being transformed into memes, parody videos and global news stories.
Within hours, Raygun was no longer simply an athlete competing in a new Olympic sport.
She had become one of the most recognisable — and most mocked — people at the Games.
The reaction quickly moved beyond criticism of her performance.
Questions began circulating online about how she had qualified for the Olympics at all, while conspiracy theories claimed that Gunn or people close to her had manipulated the selection process.
Those claims became part of an enormous wave of misinformation surrounding her appearance.
Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly revisits that period from Gunn’s perspective, exploring how an Olympic experience she had spent years working towards became an international spectacle almost overnight.
The documentary traces her journey from academic and competitive breaker to Olympic representative, before examining the intense backlash that followed Paris.
For Gunn, the consequences extended far beyond internet jokes.
She found herself at the centre of arguments about sporting legitimacy, artistic expression, Olympic qualification and whether someone suddenly transformed into a viral punchline can ever regain control of their own story.
The film also examines the unusual cultural collision surrounding breaking’s Olympic debut.
Breaking emerged from street culture and places enormous emphasis on individuality, creativity and personal style, while Olympic competition required performances to be judged inside a formal sporting structure.
Raygun’s routines became perhaps the most extreme example of the tension between those two worlds.
The documentary does not appear interested simply in deciding whether viewers should admire or criticise her Olympic performance.
Instead, it asks what happened after millions of people who knew almost nothing about Gunn, competitive breaking or its qualification system suddenly formed strong opinions about all three.
That makes Breaking Badly as much a story about internet culture as it is about sport.
A few minutes of Olympic competition generated months of commentary, misinformation and ridicule, turning an Australian athlete into a global cultural reference almost instantly.
But Netflix’s Untold series has traditionally been most interested in what happens after the headline.
Here, that means following Gunn through the rise, fall and attempted reinvention that followed the most famous few minutes of her career.
Her Olympic performance may have introduced Raygun to the world.
Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly gives her the opportunity to explain what the world did with her afterwards.
The documentary premieres globally on Netflix on September 1, 2026.
Watch the official trailer below.
