Just caught some Olympic qualifying finals for breakdancing?! Kazakhstan versus Netherlands. They both crushed it and Netherlands won. I thought the Kazaki won the whole thing with his opening move in the final bout.
I haven't read these links yet but apparently this is the first games that will feature break dancing.
https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/breaking-olympics-2024-paris-dancing
https://olympics.com/en/news/how-to-qualify-paris-2024-breaking-qualification-system-explained
I can't seem to find a video of the bout. Very cool to see breaking at the world level.
I've enjoying seeing how the games have evolved over my short life. I remember when Johnny Mosely pulled that perfect helicopter (360°) at mens moguls in Nagano in 1998 and it completely changed the sport of skiing. It launched entire categories of competitive skiing: freestyle, big air, and half pipe, eventually became Olympic events. I'm not really a big Olympics fan or anything, just wanted to share the news about breakdancing for Paris 2024. Can you believe it?
Men can generally do more power moves than women because of a difference in upper body strength. This makes it tough to have mixed gender head-to-head competitions. B-girls using power moves at all is a rather recent development to the scene.
B-boy and B-girl is the term breakers like, so I would expect them to fight hard against changing that.