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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 ...
Breaking, more commonly known as breakdancing, made its debut as an Olympic sport this week at the 2024 Paris Games, with 17 B-girls and 16 B-boys making their way to France with the hopes of ...
Liu Qingyi (simplified Chinese: 刘清漪; traditional Chinese: 劉清漪; pinyin: Liú Qīngyī; born 19 October 2005), [1] also known as 671, is a Chinese breakdancer who represented China in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, [2] and won the bronze medal in the B-Girls competition.
Grace Sun "Sunny" Choi was born in November 10, 1988 [1] in Cookeville, Tennessee, as the third of four children.Her parents, Jung-In and Kyung-Ju Choi, migrated from Daegu, South Korea for doctoral-level study at the University of Tennessee, with Jung-In going on to teach statistics at Tennessee Tech at the time of Sunny's birth.
Break dancing, professionally known as breaking, is rooted in 1970s street culture. Its debut at the 2024 Paris Games marked the first time any form of dancesport had been an Olympic event, though ...
Sunny Choi has spent many jams dancing in dark, cramped rooms. The floors are dirty. Everyone’s sweating. She may kick someone. They’re still the New York-based B-girl’s favorite places to ...
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. She also qualified for the Paris Olympics next year.