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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 ...
Breaking, more commonly known as breakdancing, made its debut as an Olympic sport this week at the 2024 Paris Games, with 17 B-girls and 16 B-boys making their way to France with the hopes of ...
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking (also known as breakdancing) made its debut as an Olympic sport—and Rachael Gunn of Team Australia quickly inspired a flurry of memes and jokes after a video ...
Raygun performs during the round-robin of the breaking B-Girls competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Gunn is a 36-year-old college professor who wrote her PhD thesis on the intersection of ...
Australia entered two breakdancers to compete in their respective gender-based dual battles for Paris 2024. Jeffrey Dan Arpie (J Attack) and Rachael Gunn (Raygun) secured the spots by virtue of their gold-medal victory each in the B-boys and B-girls final battle at the 2023 WDSF Oceanian Breaking Championships in Sydney, Australia. [24]
Break dancing, professionally known as breaking, is rooted in 1970s street culture. Its debut at the 2024 Paris Games marked the first time any form of dancesport had been an Olympic event, though ...
A total of 32 breakers (sixteen per gender) will compete in the B-Boys and B-Girls dual battle for Paris 2024. Each NOC could only send a maximum of four breakers with an equal split between B-Boys and B-Girls. Quota places are allocated to the athletes by name. These qualification spots will be awarded as follows: [2] [3]
If mining the 2024 Summer Olympics for memes was a competitive sport, these viral moments would win gold. Breakdancing Raygun, Tom Cruise's closing ceremony stunt and the most meme-able moments ...