Raygun — Dr. Rachel Gunn — gave us so much at the 2024 Paris Olympics in breaking, including some jokes and memes about her performance, and we loved seeing the hero’s welcome she got from her fellow Australian athletes.
But she’s also received a ton of hate, from the criticism to questions about her qualifications for the Olympics, with the Australian Olympic Committee needing to step in and defend a petition about Gunn that was full of “falsehoods” and “amounts to bullying and harassment, per chief exec Matt Carroll.
Gunn herself stepped in on Instagram to speak to the world, and she thanked people for support, but also said that the hate has been “devastating” and she asked the press to stop harassing family, friends and others.
Watch the whole thing: