All You Need to Know About BREAKING at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Breaking, the dynamic dance style often associated with hip-hop, is set to make its Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games. This summer, a total of 32 dancers—16 male B-boys and 16 female B-girls—will vie for gold in a high-energy competition that showcases their skills and creativity.
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Event Schedule:
- Women’s Competition: August 9, 2024
- Men’s Competition: August 10, 2024
Both events will take place at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a historic venue fitting for this groundbreaking Olympic debut.
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Competition Format:
The breaking events will feature a series of intense dance battles, beginning with a round-robin stage. This will be followed by quarterfinals, semifinals, and ultimately, the medal rounds. Competitors will demonstrate their prowess through a blend of power moves—such as windmills, the 6-step, and freezes—that highlight their agility, strength, and flair.
About Breaking:
Breaking, also known as breakdancing, is one of the four core elements of hip-hop culture, alongside DJing, rapping, and graffiti. Originating in the 1970s in the Bronx, New York, breaking has evolved from street performance to a recognized competitive sport.
The sport gained significant visibility at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, where it attracted over a million spectators. This success influenced the International Olympic Committee to include breaking in the 2024 Summer Olympic program, a decision announced in 2020.
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Rules and Judging:
In the breaking competitions, B-girls and B-boys will face off in individual dance matches, each featuring a best-of-three-round format known as a throwdown. Each dancer has up to 60 seconds per round to showcase their moves, with the opposing dancer responding in kind.
A panel of nine judges will evaluate each performance based on five criteria: technique, vocabulary, execution, musicality, and originality. Each criterion accounts for 20% of the total score. Judges will use a digital slider to score the performances in real-time, adjusting their scores to reflect the dancer’s ability to surpass the other’s record in each category.
Breaking’s inclusion in the Paris 2024 Olympics represents a thrilling expansion of the Games’ traditional boundaries, celebrating not just athleticism but also cultural expression and artistic creativity.
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