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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 ...
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 2020.
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.
Will breaking be in the 2028 Olympics? No, it won't. And it will almost certainly never be an Olympic sport again in the future. The local organizing committee for each Olympics can propose new ...
Bronze medalist b-boy Victor of Team USA celebrates on the podium during the breaking b-boys medal ceremony at the Olympic Games at Place de la Concorde on Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France.
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.
How is Olympic breaking scored? ... Dominika Banevič, of Lithuania, won the World Breaking Championship in September in Belgium: at 16, B-girl Nicka was the youngest competitor in the field (she ...