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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.
In the women's competition on Friday, Japan's b-girl Ami won gold at the Olympics' first breaking event by spinning, flipping and toprocking past a field of 16 dancers.
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 ...
He won the Breaking for Gold tournament in Japan in 2023. [7] Zakirov competed at the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics , which featured breakdancing for the first time.
In March 2023, El-Mamouny won the Moroccan National Title in breaking. [1] She then went on in May 2023 to win the inaugural WDSF African Breaking Championship, guaranteeing her a spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [1] [4] This win also made her one of the first two breakdancers to ever qualify for the sport at an Olympic level. [1] [5]
Breaking in the 2024 Summer Olympics — its preferred name by those who compete — recently showed how this acrobatic and improvisational dance form has come a long way since its origins, which ...