Breakthrough at the 2024 Olympics: B-girl Ami and a one-of-a-kind gold medal

2024-08-09 23:11:30

A breakout game is not easy to tell. The winner? Yes, it has to be, because this dance is an Olympic sport, with judges, scores, podiums and medals. On Friday, August 9, 25-year-old Ami Yuasa of Japan, also known as B-girl Ami, a champion of numerous international competitions, defeated Lithuania’s Domini Domin in the final. Dominika Banevic, won three rounds to become the first-ever Olympic champion. She advanced to the semifinals and quarterfinals with ease, and dominated the first round with her technical dominance.

Behind her is Chinese Liu Qingyi, also known as B-girl « 671 »complete the podium. Two French women, Sya Dembélé (alias Sissy) and Carlota Dudek (alias Carlota), each finished seventhe Wait 14edisappointing the two young women.

It is by no means a mistake that wrestling has carved out a sporting destiny for itself in the Olympics but remains a profound spectacle. You need to have good grades in something like figure skating or gymnastics. The nine judges, all former dancers, select a winner and a loser for each round. Their nine votes were added together to arrive at the result. However, this says nothing about what happens on and around the stage. Furthermore, the organizers know this and they will break both «Master of Ceremony» (MC) is responsible for energizing the artistic side – grand and vivid – and trying to make sports accessible – so incomprehensible.

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“The Living”one said into the microphone. “Come on, haha”the other party replied. “Yo, that’s it.”first in comments. ” Yes””, added a second, with a decibel mix of French and English that would make the French Academy blush and the auditory system of the audience pale. “Thank you to everyone who supports hip-hop, thank you to all the activists” A presenter chanted again, celebrating the first Olympic night’s disillusionment.

Like hip-hop, break offers an original dance where acrobatics compete with creativity and where twists are accompanied by freezes, floor movements, cartwheels, somersaults, slides, hand spins, head spins and more. It’s also an art of improvisation, as you have to adapt to the music of two DJs who take turns performing an eclectic set on the dance floor.

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In reality, however, it is a relative improvisation, as the athletes have rehearsed their ranges and performed their gestures, footwork, transitions during rounds and battles in which the athletes compete against each other. They realize this themselves. “We must avoid repeating ourselves, So before the exam, French B-girl, Sissy explains. It’s good to have a big vocabulary and that’s what we do in training, have a variety of moves and always come up with something new, which the judges generally noticed. »

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