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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 ...
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 ...
At every Olympic Games, there are sports that stand out from the pack.Enter: breakdancing—aka “breaking”—which had a hugely successful debut at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires and ...
The original term to refer to someone who breaks is "b-boy" and "b-girl," which is how many Olympic hopefuls identify. The "break" comes from the term breakdown, the part of a song where the ...
The breakdancer Raygun, who made headlines at the 2024 Paris Olympics, says she will no longer compete in breakdancing following backlash after her Olympic debut performances. Raygun, whose real ...
Paris Olympic competitor Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn seemingly announced earlier this month that she was done with her breakdancing career — but now she's clarifying that she's not hanging up her ...
Breaking, or break-dancing, is making its way from The Bronx to the Olympic stage in Paris for the first time in 2024 as an official Olympic event.
No matter what comes of breaking’s Olympic debut, the athletes are eager to show off what the sport is all about, even beyond the dancing, at their first shot on the largest international stage.