PARIS — In the months leading up to the 2024 Olympics, Sunny Choi, a breaker who competes as B-Girl Sunny, grew concerned that breaking was becoming Olympified. Many of her peers, she noticed, were changing their dancing in anticipation of what the more corporate judges might want: “jam-packing their rounds with a lot of stuff,” she said.
That, to her, defies the spirit of breaking. So on Friday, in breaking’s debut—and likely farewell—at the Olympics, she did the opposite.
