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Born on the streets of New York in the 1970s, breaking got the ultimate mainstream seal of approval when it was added to the Olympics roster for the 2024 Paris Games..
Even though the dance sport, seen as the bastion of the young, is set to make its much-anticipated debut on 9 August 9 at Place de la Concorde, for Indias breakers, 2024 proved to be a dream too far for Indian breakers..
It's still very niche; it's not everybody's cup of tea," says Arif Chaudhary, one of Indias leading B-Boys who won the Red Bull BC One Cypher India 2024 competition for the fifth time on 6 July...
The sport has moved out of traditional metropolitan urban centres and is now finding fanfare in smaller towns: The winner of Red Bull BC One India womens competition, Simran Ranga, hails from Jaipur..
While top athletes from other countries competed in a minimum of 10 events per year, most Indians struggled to raise enough funds to travel to more than three events in the two-year Olympic qualification cycle..
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