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Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard takes gold in Olympic breaking final (apnews.com)
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Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men’s breaking tournament Saturday.

“I never thought I’d be here in my life,” the 27-year-old said, wiping away tears. He spent the last few sleepless nights “tossing and turning” because he was “stressed out of my mind.”

“I cried yesterday because I was so scared to do this, and, I’m just happy. I’m just happy,” he said.

Hometown favorite French b-boy Dany Dann (Danis Civil) won silver, and American b-boy Victor (Victor Montalvo) took the bronze after taking out Japanese b-boy Shigekix (Shigeyuki Nakarai). These Olympic medals may be the last for breaking, at least for some time — the dance form is not in the lineup of sports for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Articles about breakdancing are not as fun as just watching it: https://youtu.be/FAvZ4Rbk-JM?si=tgM8OJ58R7KsTkcu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get a "this video is not available" message. Is this a country restriction thing or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you in Canada? I can watch it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

No, I'm in Brazil and I just realized that this is Canada sub lol. It's weird that I can watch other videos from this channel though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For anyone who is interested in watching the replay and wasn't aware, you can watch replays of all the events on CBC Gem!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watched the final, it was impressive, but I have no technical knowledge about what was happening.

I remember in the 3rd round, Dany Dan made a mistake, the announcers commented on it, and I had no idea what the mistake was.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's how I felt about a lot of olympic events, they're still entertaining and impressive as heck though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The CBC really needs to work on its technical commentary.

I feel like it was much stronger in the early 2000s and 2010s but I also suspect that was because they broadcast fewer events. Now with streaming they need more commentators and the field isn't that deep in a lot of the summer sports.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watched the B-Boys and B-Girls finals last night out of curiosity, and it was actually pretty cool and fun to watch. Still not sure how it's scored though, seems like they get a lot of points from judges for originality and not repeating moves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It was so entertaining!! But the judging did feel biased at some points. I think they had their preferred Breakers which was evident when their preferred Breaker was clearly outshined but somehow still won the round.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

...does...
...does b-boy stand for basketboy