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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 ...
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.
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 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 24 July. [1] Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the games. [2]
The local organizing committee for each Olympics can propose new sports for their Games, but Los Angeles 2028 did not propose including breaking. It will feature lacrosse and flag football, among ...
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.
At the Olympics, he was eliminated in the preliminary round of 16 after placing third in his group. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] After appearing in the 2024 Olympics, Sun became the first Taiwanese breakdancer to reach the final of The Notorious IBE , [ 11 ] and won the 1 vs 1 competition in the 2024 edition of Outbreak Europe .
Few people know who Grace Choi is. The American B-girl, as break dancers are known, won on Saturday the first Pan American gold medal for the sport that mixes dancing and acrobatics. “Sunny ...