See the Viral Video of Molly Chapman, the Olympic Breakdancer Who Failed to Qualify Against ‘Raygun'
—Breakdancing recently took the 2024 Paris Olympics by storm, and its short lived stint as a part of the Games most certainly had people talking. While Japan took home the gold in the women’s category and Canada took it home in the men’s category, one competitor had people talking the most, and it was Australia’s Rachael Gunn, known as “Raygun.”
While “Raygun” has since gone viral on social media since her participation in the event, it left people in awe and was a genuine expression of creativity from the 36-year-old who has a Ph.D in cultural studies and works as a lecturer and researcher at Macquarie University.
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“All my moves are original,” Gunn told The Guardian of the competition at the Olympic Games. “Creativity is really important to me. I go out there and I show my artistry.” She continued, “Sometimes it speaks to the judges, and sometimes it doesn’t. I do my thing, and it represents art. That is what it is about.”
“I was never going to beat these girls on what they do best, the dynamic and the power moves, so I wanted to move differently, be artistic and creative because how many chances do you get that in a lifetime to do that on an international stage.”
Who was Raygun up against prior to the Olympics?
In a video that has recently gone viral, Molly Chapman, a breakdancer also from Australia, was revealed to have been one of the competitors who lost to Raygun at the event in which she qualified for The Olympics.
Molly Chapman, the Aussie breakdancer who lost to Raygun in the qualifying event to compete at the Olympics.
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Chapman competed against Gunn in 2023 at the WDSF Oceania Championships, where it would ultimately be decided that Gunn would be the Australian breakdancer headed to Paris in 2024. Many have taken to social media to express their belief that Chapman may have been better qualified to compete in the Games.
Regardless of the support Chapman has received since the video of her dancing began circulating, she took to Instagram to share her support of Raygun. She reposted a picture originally shared by @ausbreaking, which defended the Olympic qualification guidelines and procedure that allowed Raygun to participate. In her story, she wrote, “Truth/facts.”
Regardless of where you might stand on the matter of the breaking competition, we’ve seen the last of it in the Olympics, as it won’t be making its way back to Los Angeles in 2028.
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