Choi, a breakdancer, faces challenges in convincing people of breaking's worthiness as an Olympic sport.
Choi shows off a move near the Unisphere at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York City. “ Breakers used to break back in the day under the globe,” she says.—she gets her fair share of quizzical stares. Sometimes people laugh. And she’s seen the comments when, say, the Team USA account posts on X about her event. “What the?” replied one man. “Please no,” wrote another. Someone used the clown emoji.
She explains that breakers today don’t carry around cardboard and start spinning on street corners, like they did in the 1980s. The sold-out inaugural Olympic competition in August will take place at a dedicated venue in theBut it can be difficult to convince someone, on the spot, of breaking’s worthiness as an Olympic sport. “I just have to hope that you see it one day,” says Choi, 35, over green tea at a coffee shop in Queens, N.Y., where she’s lived, and danced, for more than a decade. Breaking is a judged event, just like ratings darlings gymnastics and figure skating. No one says those aren’t sport
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