Tones And I brought out Olympic breakdancer Raygun to perform at their Melbourne show on Saturday (November 9), while NFL’s Camryn Bynum re-enacted her viral Olympic routine during a game the following day.
Raygun, real name Rachel Gunn, competed for Australia in breaking during the Paris Olympics this summer and scored zero points across three rounds with an unconventional routine that ended up becoming a viral meme.
During Tones And I’s performance of ‘Dance With Me’, she came out on stage to re-enact the infamous routine, even striking a kangaroo pose.
In a TikTok post capturing the moment, Tones And I said: “Raygun. A genuinely kind, beautiful person. Thank you for putting smiles on everyone’s faces ❤️ You will always have a mate in me.”
Check it out below:
@tonesandi Raygun. A genuinely kind, beautiful person. Thank you for putting smiles in everyones faces ❤️ You will always ahve a mate in me.
♬ original sound – Tones And I
Meanwhile, Minnesota Vikings player Camryn Bynum celebrated a triumphant moment on Sunday by reenacting part of Raygun’s Olympic routine.
GOLD MEDAL GAME WINNER 🎬🥇😂 pic.twitter.com/IaV4nvdGVd
— Camryn Bynum (@Cambeezy_) November 11, 2024
The competitor, who is also a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, responded to the backlash against her at the time, saying: “Don’t be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that’s gonna take you.”
In an interview with Stellar Magazine (via Daily Mail) last month, Raygun has discussed her performance at the Olympics and the effect the online reaction had on her life. Under a banner of “What Raygun did next”, Gunn is quoted as saying: “You did not bring me down. You did not succeed. I will stand by what I did.”
Raygun suggested last week she was retiring from competitive breaking, saying in an interview that “I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now”. However, she has since clarified that her comments were taken out of context.
“It’s not a decision that I did come to, this turned into a story. So I was talking, you know, on 2dayFM about how I’m not going to do certain competitions anymore, which didn’t seem like such a big deal because breaking is not going to be in the Olympics any way,” she said on the Today show on Monday.
“But you know, I’m still going to be part of community jams, or I’d like to go to community jams and still dance and still break. I never used the word retire – I’m not retiring.
“You try and stop me, I’m not ever going to stop dancing so if you hear that again, you know that it’s not the truth,” she said.
