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‘It’s Like a Game of Chess’: How 2 Members of the U.S. Breaking Team Prepared for the Paris Olympics
Team USA Breaking B-Boys Victor Montalvo and Jeffrey Louis on what to expect when they bring breakdancing to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
It’s a complicated, difficult sport, and star athletes such as Canada’s Phil Wizard train to move just about every part of their bodies, improvising instantly to tracks and beats they have no idea are coming. In a competition last year, Jeffrey “B-Boy Jeffro” Louis, 29, now on the U.S. team, repeatedly twirled his body while upside-down, feet in the air – balancing himself alternately on his head, upper back and a single forearm. Breaking, the sport, took off in the early 2000s when Red Bull sponsored events such as Lords of the Floor, treating the competition not like an old-school throwback but a series of hyped-up wrestling or boxing matches.
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