Starting this Friday (14th), Rio de Janeiro will host one of the most important competitions on the world breaking circuit, which will debut as an Olympic sport at the 2024 Paris Games. international circuit – will bring together the best in the world in Latin America. The event at the Olympic Park, in the west zone of Rio, will bring together 300 B-Boys and B-Girls, as breaking athletes are also called: a type of street dance, which involves jumping, turning and acrobatics, to the sound of rhythms varied music: hip-hop, funk, soul and jazz, among others). The event, with free admission, will run until Saturday (15), at Arena Carioca 2. Current Brazilian champion, B-Boy Luan San is one of the highlights of the Brazilian men’s team, which will also feature Leony from Pará and Rato from Minas Gerais. EVN at the Breaking for For Gold Series stage, in Rio de Janeiro – Publicity/Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Culture and Creative Economy Organized by the International Federation of Sports Dance (World Dance Sport Federation – WDSF), the competition is one of more points for the world ranking, which will be closed at the end of the year: the first 14 placed in each gender (female and male) will advance to the Olympic qualifying dispute in 2024. Also called Olympic Qualification System (OQS), the qualifying will distribute 14 places for the Paris Games. In addition to Brazilians, the event will bring together athletes from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, France, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Spain, Kazakhstan and Colombia. Among the world stars in the edition of the Breaking for Gold Series in Rio is the Canadian Phil Wizard, world champion last year, and the Kazakh B-Boy Amir, champion of the first stage of the circuit, held in February, in Kitakyushu (Japan). Other exponents in the men’s competition are B-Boy Lussy Sky (Ukraine) and B-Boy Xak (Spain). In the women’s dispute, the athletes most quoted for the title are B-Girl India (Netherlands), European champion, and two major Japanese rivals: B-Girl 671 (ranking runner-up) and B-Girl Ami. “After the World Championship and the Continental Championship for the category, which directly [para Paris 2024], the World Series are the main ranking stages for B.Boys and B.Girls who want to be in Paris in 2024 and Brazil will host one of them. We are very happy for the privilege of hosting this event and the world’s athletes in search of the Olympic dream at home and, of course, rooting a lot for our Team Brazil”, said José Bispo de Assis, technical director of breaking at the Conselho Nacional de Dança Desportiva ( CNDD). Brazilian team Brazil will have six athletes (male and female), between 19 and 35 years old, in the fight for the title in the Rio stage. Among the B-Boys are Luan San from São Paulo (Brazilian champion), Leony from Pará, and Rato EVN from Minas Gerais. In the women’s dispute, the selection has Nathana from Minas Gerais, Mini Japa from Pará and Toquinha from São Paulo. “Being in this championship is very important for me, because I am representing a group, the community where I live, Brazil. It’s a chance I have to show the result of my training. I go upstairs to get the points I need to be [nas classificatórias] de 2024”, projects B-Girl Toquinha, who got to know breaking through a social project in Perus, a district located about 27 kilometers from the capital of São Paulo. “I’m going upstairs to get the points I need to be [nas classificatórias] in 2024”, says B-Girl Toquinha, member of the Brazilian women’s national team Ferreira, and on the slopes they won two silvers with Rayssa Leal and Kelvin Hoefler – the expectation for a medal at the debut of breaking at the Paris Games does not seem unrealistic. The Games will have only 32 athletes (men and women) of the modality. Each national Olympic committee will be entitled to only four seats (two per gender). The main criterion for an athlete to compete for an Olympic spot in breaking in Paris is to have been born by December 31, 2008. In addition to the Breaking for For Gold Series stages that earn points for the ranking – check out this year’s schedule – the definition of vacancies will occur in three competitions. The world championship – between September 23 and 14, in Belgium – will give two places, one per gender, to the winners. The continental championships (African, European, Asian, Pan American Games and Continental Oceania) will define another 10 places. Finally, the last chance for B-Boys and B-Girls to stamp their passport towards the Paris Games will be in the qualifier – the Olympic Qualification System (OQS) – in the first half of 2024, which will distribute 14 spots.
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