Women (B-Girl), Final
The breaking competitions will take place at La Concorde Urban Park in the heart of Paris. The public square will be temporarily transformed into a venue for multiple sports, and a space to highlight the cultures of Paris. The park will be a hub for the Summer Games, with areas for visitors to enjoy live DJs, sport demonstrations, dining areas and more.
Along with breaking, La Concorde Urban Park will be home to skateboarding, basketball 3x3 and BMX freestyle.
An important note on breaking names: In breaking, you will often see references to athletes with "B-Boy" or "B-Girl" in front of their names (ex. B-Boy Phil Wizard, B-Girl Logistx). However, while it is accurate to call Phil Wizard a B-Boy and Logistx a B-Girl, some athletes have said that they prefer not to have that moniker included as part of their breaking names, so it is NBC's style to honor that and call them by their breaking names: Phil Wizard , Logistx , Sunny , etc.
When you watch breaking, you might hear some unfamiliar terms, if you haven't watch before. Here's a quick-and-dirty guide:
Power head : A power head is someone who loves to practice and perform mostly power moves in their breaking. Power moves are acrobatic moves that require momentum, speed, endurance, strength, flexibility and control. The breaker is generally supported by their upper body, while the rest of their body creates circular momentum.
Footwork cat : A footwork cat is someone who loves to practice and perform footwork in their breaking. This describes any movement on the floor with the hands supporting the dancer as much as the feet.
Popping : A continuous flexing of the muscles to the beat. Some moves include arm and body waves that look like an electric current has passed through the body.
Locking : Freezing from a fast movement and "locking" into a certain position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before.
Headspin : In a headstand position, the breaker spins by pushing with their hands.
Heelspin : Breaker puts their weight on one heel and initiates a spin by swinging their leg.
Windmill : Breaker rotates continuously on one shoulder with their feet in the air and legs apart.
Backspin : Breaker balances weight on their upper back and goes into a spin by pushing with their hands or swinging the legs across the body.
Throw down : When the B-Girl or B-Boy hits the floor and starts breaking, they are doing a throw down.
Set : A set is a breaker's prepared round or combination of moves.
Repeating : When a breaker reuses a move that they've already done during the competition, they are considered to have been "repeating." Twenty percent of a breaker's score is originality, and repeating can negatively impact that score.
Bite/biter/biting : When a breaker is accused of 'biting' or being a 'biter,' it means that they have either stolen or copied moves/style from another breaker. Similar to "repeating," this can also affect a breaker's originality score.
Crashing : If a breaker 'crashes,' it means they failed an attempted move and fell during or at the end of their attempt. This may be the most common cause of a breaker losing a battle. The best breakers, however, know how to turn a crash into a move and can control the crash enough to continue their flow into something else.
Tops among medal contenders is 17- year-old Dominika Banevic (“Nicka”) of Lithuania, who broke through to win the 2023 world title at age 16. While some of her challengers, such as Ayumi Fukushima (“Ayumi”) of Japan and American Sunny Choi (“Sunny”) didn't start breaking until their early 20s, Nicka started breaking in her living room as a 5-year-old after discovering the sport on YouTube. That early start helped her develop an extremely well-rounded style.
Sunny, the 2019 world silver medalist and 2023 U.S. champion, quit her job as the Director of Global Creative Operations at skincare and makeup company Estee Lauder in January 2023 to focus on breaking full-time. She clinched a spot in the Olympics by winning the 2023 Pan American Games title.
Logan Edra (“Logistx”) , 2023 world quarterfinalist, won the Red Bull BC One World Final in 2021 and finished second at the 2023 U.S. Championships. She earned the second and final U.S. women's Olympic spot at the Olympic Qualifier Series, which ended in June. Sunny and Logistx are both outside medal contenders. Logistx, born to Filipino parents in California, was given her breaking name by her father, who said she always needed a logistical plan for everything she did.
Nicka defeated Ayumi , a 42-year-old Japanese breaking legend, in the final at 2023 Worlds. Ayumi, the 2021 world champion, leads a strong Japanese contingent. Both legs of the Olympic Qualifier Series were Japanese podium sweeps, with Ayumi beating 2022 world champion Ami Yuasa ("Ami") in the Shanghai final and Ami avenging the loss in the Budapest final, ensuring qualification for both as the top two finishers in the series.
Riko Tsuhako ("Riko") finished third in both events and was the only woman who finished top-10 in the series but failed to qualify. Ayumi and Ami are both solid medal contenders with a shot at gold. Ayumi came from humble beginnings in the sport, with her first battle coming as a 21-year-old against an elementary school girl.
Nicka may be challenged further by 2022 world runner-up Liu Qingyi (“671”) of China and 2022 European and Red Bull BC One champion India Sardjoe (“India”) of the Netherlands.
French teenager Sya Dembele (“Syssy”) finished third at 2023 Worlds, and she has also emerged as a medal contender for the host nation.
Victor Montalvo (“Victor”) is considered by many to be the most successful competitor in the sport's history, and he is the gold medal favorite. His 2023 world title (his second in three years) clinched his spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Victor got his start in the sport at age 6, following in the footsteps of his father, who was a B-Boy in Mexico. Victor's father was also a member of a death metal band in Mexico before he ultimately moved to the U.S. for better opportunities to raise a family.
Jeffrey Louis (“Jeffro”) , who lost to Victor in the 2022 World Games final, is the second U.S. man to qualify for breaking and is a medal contender. He enters Paris ranked No. 4 in the World DanceSport Federation rankings.
Philip Kim (“Phil Wizard”) defeated Shigeyuki Nakarai (“Shigekix”) to win the 2022 world title, and he finished second to Victor at 2023 Worlds. Phil Wizard, who qualified for the Games with his 2023 Pan American Games title, is expected to be Victor’s top challenger for gold. Shigekix, a bronze medalist at the 2018 Youth Olympics, 2022 World Games, and 2023 World Championships, is close behind.
Danis Civil (“Dany Dann”) , 2022 European champion, is the top medal hope for the French. Dany Dann left his home country of French Guiana (in South America) in 2008 to further his breaking career in Paris. He married a B-Girl, Marion, and they worked as nurses in a hospital together before he began focusing on breaking full-time in the lead-up to the Games.
Another potential medal contender is 2021 Red Bull BC One World Final champion Amir Zakirov ("Amir") of Kazakhstan.
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