A look at the art and sport of breaking as it makes its Olympic debut
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At about two weeks at the Paris Olympics, the debut of an entirely new medal event, |
| 0:06.6 | breaking or what's perhaps more widely known to the uninitiated, like me, as breakdancing. In a Los Angeles dance studio, 21 year old Logan Edra teaches moves she spent two thirds |
| 0:21.0 | of her life developing since she was just seven. |
| 0:25.0 | In the world of breaking, she's called B-girl Logistics, |
| 0:28.6 | and as one of the four members of the US breaking team |
| 0:31.3 | at the Paris Games, she can also be called Olympian. |
| 0:35.0 | I see any title or championship or win or medal. |
| 0:38.0 | It's more for me like a microphone to amplify any message I want. |
| 0:42.0 | I represent the peace love unity and having fun and also |
| 0:46.8 | being a student of the game and caring about the evolution of like where this is going and |
| 0:51.3 | keeping it alive. The first Olympic breaking competition was at the 2018 youth games in Buenos Aires. |
| 0:59.0 | The Olympics recognizes it as an urban sport, skateboarding also an Olympic event. |
| 1:04.9 | Competitors need improvisation, |
| 1:06.8 | athleticism and coordination, drawing on disciplines like martial arts and |
| 1:11.3 | gymnastics. It was created in the 1970s at South Bronx dance |
| 1:16.0 | parties by black and Latino youths. It's said that the name comes from the breaks in |
| 1:21.2 | hip-hop songs, |
| 1:22.6 | when the vocals drop out leaving a steady driving beat. |
| 1:28.9 | The 1983 film Flash Dance helped break and go mainstream with a scene with members of the hip-hop group Rock Steady Crew. |
| 1:37.6 | Now its popularity is global. |
| 1:41.2 | From the United Kingdom to France. |
| 1:45.0 | If you think about Paris, maybe you think about the Eiffel Tower and you think about |
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