A Japanese broke the dry spell of the Summer Olympics by clinching the first Olympic gold in breaking last night and the event was included in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
One of the memorable sets was opened by B-Girl Ami Yuasa or just Ami, who triumphed over B-Girl Nicka from Lithuania with a striking power-moves set finished by a solo topped with crowd applause.
China’s B-Girl 671 and the Netherlands’ B-Girl India took the brunt at the 16-woman field getting the bronze, meanwhile, B-Girl Sunny and B-Girl Logistx both from America were eliminated at the round-robin stage.
The competition began with the round-robin, with four groups of four breakers each; each group had two distinct confrontations with three other breakers from the same group. From there the two B-Girls with the most round wins in each group moved to the quarter-final. The quarters, semis, and finals were three rounds in which the games’ format conformed to the bracket.
Where did breakdancing originate? Summer Olympics
Initially in the Bronx during the 1980s, DJ Kool Herc began stretching the beat; the term breaking then stemmed from that. The breaks he came up with for the furniture’s came to be referred by the name “go off,” a phrase that is alive generations after it was coined. The global history of breaking and how it reached the world must be read in Chris Bumbaca’s piece.
What’s The Reason For Breakdancing to Be in the Summer Olympics
Breaking is among the new-generation of sports that the International Olympic Committee has introduced into the Summer Games as a way of marketing to the younger demography and incorporating the feeling of the modern city into the event. This comes aftermutations that included skateboard and surfing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Setting up the Semis
And that was just the semi-final with four sensational B-Girls left to battle it out in front of the grandstand at La Concorde as the sun started to set. Top seeded Japan’s B-Girl Ami and B-girl Nicka from Lithuania wherein the two secured powerful victories in the quarterfinals and secured victory in the semis as well. Two of them battled it out against B-Girl India from the Netherlands for the lower semis while the other took on B-Girl 671 of China in the upper semis. The fights were in rounds and every round was a boxing match.
Japan’s Ami def. Netherlands’ India, 2-1
Lithuania’s Nicka def. China’s 671, 2-1
Quarters on the line
These are the results of the quarter-finals. Every fight was of three stages.
Japan’s Ami def. France’s Syssy, 3-0
Netherlands’ India def. Japan’s Ayumi, 2-1
China’s 671 def. Ukraine’s Kate, 3-0
Lithuania’s Nicka def. China’s Ying Zi, 3-0
If one dancer sees the other as a threat, rivalry, competitor, distraction, whatever it is, it is as good time as any to explain why you notice two fingers or a wag of one.
Breakers occasionally do this to try and communicate to the judges that the opponent is recycling an action or sequence of action. Later in the competition, the vocabularies have to take more prominence — they serve to penalise the breaker for repeating the trick over and over again.
