Breaking at the 2024 Olympics Sees Dancers Going For Gold [Video]

B-girl Sunny Choi’s life looks very different today than it did a couple of years ago. She quit her high-powered job as director of global creative operations at Estée Lauder’s skin-care branch, and is now focused on dance training full-time. She’s secured sponsorships from Nike and Samsung, and she moved into a new apartment in Queens, New York, that has a living room big enough to dance in.  

It’s all in pursuit of one goal: to win gold this summer, during the first time in history that the Olympic Games will feature a breaking competition.

Thirty-two dancers total—16 b-boys and 16 b-girls—will compete battle-style in Paris’ Place de la Concorde to sold-out crowds on August 9 and 10. Qualifying competitions have been going on since 2022, with the final two happening just this May and June. Choi and b-boy Victor Montalvowere the first to qualify …