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Minnesota Vikings star Camryn Bynum paid tribute to viral Olympic breakdancer Raygun with his celebration dance following a game-sealing interception. 

After Bynum, 26, picked off Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Mac Jones on Sunday, November 10, securing the Vikings’ 12-6 victory, the safety imitated Raygun’s dance from the 2024 Paris Olympics with impressive detail. 

Bynum told reporters after the game that his celebration was a tribute to the Australian breaker — real name Rachael Gunn — with whom the football player feels a kinship. 

“I’m a big fan,” Bynum gushed. “She went out there, had fun. That’s what I do on the field.”

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Bynum admitted he had been “saving” the dance for some time, which Raygun performed to much shock and derision in August. 

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“It’s been a while since I’ve had a [celebration], so I was like, ‘I gotta go crazy with this one,’” Bynum said with a big smile. “I wish I had a little more time. I would have done the whole dance. But trust me, I got another one coming.”

The interception was Bynum’s third of the season and first since the Vikings’ 23-17 win over the New York Jets on October 6. 

Bynum said he had been practicing the dance “for a few weeks,” which is often a process he shows off on social media. Before he performed an Usher-themed glitch dance celebration after nabbing an interception against the Houston Texans on September 22, Bynum posted rehearsal footage from his apartment via Instagram.

“I can clown like she did,” Bynum said of the Raygun dance. “It was a fun celebration. It didn’t take too much effort, like the Usher one.”

Bynum joked that he comes to the stadium every week with other dances in his back pocket in the event that things really go his way. 

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“I got at least three ready every game, just in case I get a three turnover game,” Bynum said. “‘I have to use them wisely.”

Bynum and the Vikings return to action Sunday, November 17 against the Tennessee тιтans. 

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It’s safe to say that Australian breakdancer Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has taken the internet by storm. Gunn competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics‘ first-ever breakdancing event on August 9, facing off against France’s Sya Dembélé in the preliminary phase of the compeтιтion. Though she failed to score a point, losing 0-2 to the teenage breaking […]

After announcing she wasn’t “gonna compete anymore” during a radio interview on Thursday, November 5, citing the “level of scrutiny” surrounding her Olympics performance, Raygun clarified that she was not, in fact, retiring. 

“So I was talking, you know, on 2dayFM about how I’m not going to do certain compeтιтions anymore, which didn’t seem like such a big deal because breaking is not going to be in the Olympics [at the 2028 L.A. Games] anyway,” she said during a recent episode of Australia’s Today show.

“But you know, I’m still going to be part of community jams, or I’d like to go to community jams and still and still dance and still break — never used the word ‘retire,’ But, you know, it just caught on to the news cycle,” she continued. “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. You can’t retire from an art form. So that’s why I’m never going to stop.”