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Phil Wizard beat Dany Dann to win gold in men's breaking at the 2024 Paris Olympics, while B-boy Victor grabbed bronze for Team USA. Olympic breakdancing highlights, results: B-boy Victor of Team ...
Victor Montalvo during the 2024 Team USA Media Summit on April 16, 2024 in New York. Breaking vs. breakdancing The sport of breaking is likely familiar to many as “breakdancing.”
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 ...
On Saturday, Aug. 10, Victor (whose full name is Victor Montalvo) won the battle for bronze 3-0 against Japan's Shigekix at La Concorde in Paris, according to a press release from Team USA.
Victor Montalvo, or "B-Boy Victor," already the highest-ranked American male in the sport of breaking, accomplished a new feat last week, becoming the first U.S. athlete to win a medal in Olympic ...
Victor Bernudez Montalvo (born May 1, 1994), [1] also known mononymously as Victor, [1] is an American b-boy. He was born in Kissimmee, Florida to parents from Puebla, Mexico. [2] He participated at the 2022 World Games in the dancesport competition where he won the gold medal [3] in the B-Boys event.
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris saw the debut of breaking as an Olympic sport. 16 male and 16 female breakers – according to Olympic terminology – competed in head-to-head matches. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] IOC President Thomas Bach said that breaking was added to draw more interest from young people in the Olympics. [ 84 ]
The sport, which has roots in hip-hop culture, originated at block parties in New York City’s Bronx borough in the 1970s and made it to the mainstream by the 1980s.