Breaking makes its official debut at the Paris Games in 2024, and U.S. breakers want more than just nailing the right moves; it’s about preserving its soul.
The top b-boy and the top b-girl from the championship will automatically gain spots in the Olympics. After the Belgium event, Olympic-qualifying competitions are scheduled in China and Chile, through mid-December. Additional Olympic trials will be held in the early part of next year and run through June 2024. At the end of the process, 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls will be allowed to compete over two days at Paris' iconic Place de la Concorde.“We have a big chance, a really big chance,” he said.
In the past, judging in hip-hop breaking competitions has always been very subjective. But that won’t be the case with the Paris Olympics, where officials will use a newly developed system to decide which b-boy or b-girl has bested their opponent in one-on-one battles. The scoring system could not have been developed without the input of the breaking community, said Alexander Diaz, a Boston-based member of Team USA.
The International Olympic Committee's announcement three years ago that breaking would become an official Olympic sport divided the breaking community between those excited for the larger platform and those concerned about the dance form’s purity.“It wasn’t helping me to express the loudness, to be the funkiest, to embody the story,” she said.
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