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What was born in The Bronx now belongs to the world.
What you know as breakdancing — what you may still link with boom boxes and cardboard boxes on graffiti-filled, pre-Internet city streets — is simply known as breaking, the sport set to make its Olympics debut in Paris.
“One of the first things I would tell everyone is to forget about the ’80s,” said Kevin “Renegade” Gopie, a longtime breaking dancer, DJ, coach and judge. “Breaking is now a mature discipline with 50 years of history and development, and it is gonna be one of the most amazing things you’re gonna see at the Olympics.
“It’s about time, really. The Olympics need things that are more youth-focused. It’s not dying, but it needs new blood.”