He breaking Olympic, more commonly known as break dancingis the modern dance that has conquered the Olympic Games for the first time in Paris 2024.
What isIts roots go back to the 70s in the Bronx neighborhood, in New York, as part of hip-hop culture. The word break –Breaks – refers to instrumental breaks or pauses in music that are often accompanied by rhythms. It is characterized by a combination of athletic movements that include spins, flips and other complex techniques, as explained on the official page of the Olympic Games.
- International competitions of break dancing They started in the 1990s, but they were the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires 2018 (an event that brings together athletes aged 15 to 18 from more than 200 countries around the world) the first Olympic event in which it competed as a new sport discipline. Paris 2024 are the first – adult – games to include the break dancing in their Olympic program.
How to compete. He breaking It is recognized as an urban sport, just like the skateboarding and the sport climbingsince it is a dance “of great physical demand and coordination.”
- In it breaking The Olympic competition is held in the form of “battles”, short dances in which athletes compete one on one. These battles are led by a master of ceremonies and with music that the athletes do not know beforehand.
- Athletes are known as B-Boys y B-Girls: the world champion is B-Boy Victoran American of Mexican roots; the world champion is B-Girl Nicka, a Belgian who got the ticket to the Paris 2024 Games in a contest urban from Andalusia.
How to scoreThe judges rate the “breakthroughs” according to five categories: musicality, vocabulary, originality, technique and execution. Each category represents 20% of the score.
- Battles are best-of-three rounds, also known as throwdowns. Each breaker You have 60 seconds to complete a dance in a throwdown.
When will it be possible to see it? The inaugural Olympic competition will take place this Friday, August 9th and tomorrow, August 10th, at the Place de la Concorde from 4:00 p.m. 16 athletes will take part. B-Boys y B-Girls in each branch. Women compete on the first day and men on the second.
- Every day begins with a phase of all against all which consists of four groups of four people each. The top two in each group advance to the quarter-finals, followed by the semi-finals and medal battles.
- All that in about five hours, non-stop!
