Here's everything you need to know about the newest sport at the Olympics, from the history of breakdancing to the format, and how it will work at the Paris Games.
Paris 2024 will give an Olympic Games debut to the sport of breaking – a style of street dance that originated in 1970s New York City.
He started to play two copies of the same record, mixing between them on two turntables so that he could extend the break and dancers would have more time to showcase their moves. Instead of scoring each of these criteria, judges use a digital slider, sliding towards the breaker who is winning the head-to-head match-up. So, if breaker A is performing better than breaker B, judges will move the slider towards their side.
These eight breakers are then seeded into another group where the breaker ranked eighth battles the top-ranked breaker; number seven goes against number two, and so on. The loser of each of these battles is knocked out, with the winner moving on. This continues through the semi-finals and finals.There is serious prestige in the battle to win a historic first breaking medal in Paris this summer and qualification is already well under way.
There will be no British involvement in the women’s category, with no b-girls qualifying for the Games or the OQS.B-boy Victor, otherwise known as Victor Montalvo, is an American breaker from Florida who secured his place in Paris this summer by winning the World Championship in Belgium last year.
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