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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking (also known as breakdancing) made its debut as an Olympic sport—and Rachael Gunn of Team Australia quickly inspired a flurry of memes and jokes after a video ...
She set a world record time of 50.37 seconds at the 2024 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2024, breaking her own old world record of 50.65 seconds. She is the first track athlete to break four world records in the same event; setting four world records during 13 months, she was the first woman to break the 52-second (June 2021) and 51-second (July ...