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PARIS — A 25-year-old from Japan won the first Olympic gold medal in breaking Friday night at the 2024 Paris Games.. B-Girl Ami, whose legal name is Ami Yuasa, defeated B-Girl Nicka of Lithuania ...
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 ...
Banevič represented Lithuania in break dancing at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, [8] and won the silver medal. [9] Upon returning to Lithuania, Česlav Okinčic , the former president of the Lithuanian Golf Federation, presented Dominika with a new electric car on behalf of the golf community and all nationalities of Vilnius.
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 ...
Liu won gold at the 2022 Asian Games for women's breakdancing, [4] becoming the first Chinese breakdancer to be a medallist and qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [5] She won silver in the 2022 WDSF World Breaking Championships in South Korea. [2] Her nickname 671 is because the numbers are pronounced similarly to her name in Chinese ...
Choi participated at the 2022 World Games in the dancesport competition where she won the silver medal in the B-Girls event. In 2023, she won the first gold medal in breakdancing ever given at the Pan American Games. Because of that, she became the first American woman to qualify for Olympic breaking.
Raygun may not have left the 2024 Paris Olympics with a medal, but she did make her impact.. The Australian breakdancer, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, made headlines after her performance on ...