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Day 14 of the Paris Olympics provided triumph for Sha'Carri Richardson, embarrassment for the U.S. men's 4x100 relay team, and the debut of break-dancing.
Breaking was introduced at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as an optional (temporary) sport. Despite the United States being the birthplace of breakdancing, the sport is not set to be included at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; on its omittance in the latter, the IOC's sports director Kit McConnell stated that "It's up to each local organizing committee to determine which ...
Day 15 of the Paris Olympics was big for Team USA with women's soccer, men's basketball, and track and field earning several gold medals.
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 28, 2024 The victory sent the 17,000-seat swimming venue La Défense Arena into a frenzy and earned the 22-year-old swimmer a call from French ...
Paris 2024 Organizing Committee President Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games' logo engraved into it. [18]
The Olympics are off and running, and the United States has already won its first gold medal. The Paris Games kicked off on Saturday after the wet and wild Opening Ceremony down the Seine River on ...
Grace Sun "Sunny" Choi (born November 10, 1988) is an American breakdancer who competed in the inaugural breaking competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics.She previously performed as a youth gymnast and a director at Estée Lauder before leaving to pursue breaking full-time.