On Friday, breakdancing made its extremely anticipated debut on the 2024 Paris Olympics and viewers have combined emotions.
Workforce USA’s B-Ladies, Sunny Choi and Logan Edra, who carry out below Logistx, competed towards a number of breakers, failing to take house any medals. As a substitute, Workforce Japan’s B-Woman Ami, whose actual identify is Ami Yuasa, gained the competitors’s first-ever Olympic gold medal. B-Woman Dominika Banevič, aka Nicka of Lithuania, earned the silver, whereas China’s Liu Qingyi, who competed below the moniker 671, gained the bronze.
Sunny Choi’s Olympic breaking profession beginning in type. 🔥#ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/Ogzmde5Nc0
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 9, 2024
Although a historic second, many individuals known as out what they perceived as gentrification of the game, contemplating that the distinctive dance type was birthed in New York from hip-hop tradition. Others have been extremely amused on the quirky strikes on the middle stage, having a tough time distinguishing what precisely was being scored. Nevertheless, rapped Ice-T defended the competitors on-line, calling breakdancing “extra athletic than lots of the Olympic occasions.”
Extra Athletic than lots of the Olympic occasions. Face to face competitors. Ask me that query after you watch. 💥 https://t.co/u8QPDpqykA
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 9, 2024
The B-Boys breaking competitors is ready to happen on Saturday, and followers are to have many opinions.
Of all of the locations that Snoop Dogg ought to be on the Olympics, this feels proper. Snoop opens the breaking competitors pic.twitter.com/7qBIomPqMZ
— Thuc Nhi Nguyen (@thucnhi21) August 9, 2024
I paid $2,090 per ticket for my household of 5 to attend the break dancing occasion on the Olympics.
We definitely received our cash’s value. pic.twitter.com/FeLtK7djWM
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) August 9, 2024
Shout out Black/Latinx b-boys & b-girls in NYC who’re doubtless of their mid-late 60s right this moment who have been harassed by cops, admonished by media, and dismissed by ‘artists’ for creating what’s now a world artwork kind #OlympicGames #breakdancing #hiphop #NYC https://t.co/c7NuJYQSlf
— CJ Smiley, Ph.D. (@UptownKastro) August 9, 2024
Turned on the break dancing olympics and naturally this white lady from Lithuania received a Durag on…. pic.twitter.com/veD5ybKXjg
— Carmen Jones (@shesaysgo_) August 9, 2024
Breakdancing this morning at #OlympicGames Hip Hop is a lot greater than the music and now hopefully extra folks, particularly right here within the US, can admire the opposite parts.
You by no means thought that Hip Hop would take it this far…
🎥 MSNBC pic.twitter.com/LreXKdNjIF
— Ruben || Examine the Rhyme (@checktherhyme1_) August 9, 2024
Wait! What in all of the hells and realms of the multiverse is Olympic aggressive break dancing and why am I a white girl from Lithuania breaking in a dew rag? pic.twitter.com/6yqoYwXriR
— Bedford Palmer II, Ph.D. (@DrBFPalmer) August 9, 2024
What within the Magikarp is that this shit. #breakdancing #breakdance #Olympics
pic.twitter.com/KhVnI04RaO
— It Was All a Dream, I Used to Learn Wizard Journal (@UpToTASK) August 9, 2024
Yal knew break dancing was an olympic sport?!? The place New York at?!?😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/YNYYfYeEVr
— Smitty (@JSMITTY_1911) August 9, 2024
I am able to signal the petition to formally take away Break Dancing from the Olympics. Simply ship me the hyperlink.
— Andrew Hawkins (@Hawk) August 9, 2024
1. Breakdancing on the Olympics is already wonderful merely for the visible of seeing someone from Lithuania in a durag2. The announcers gotta be reaaaaallllll cautious saying that identify 😂 pic.twitter.com/Ro6XW9vbLL
— Maxx aka Humphrey Frogart aka Maxxel Rose (@MaxxFuller) August 9, 2024
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