A new sport made its debut at the Olympics on Friday, it's called 'Breaking,' otherwise known as breakdancing, and the Internet has many mixed emotions about it.
According to the official Olympic page for breaking, the sport includes a "B-boys" and "B-girls" event, each showcasing athletes' power moves, personal styles and their ability to improvise to music. Judges will score baed on six key areas: creativity, personality, technique, variety, performativity and musicality.
Snoop Dogg was there to open the event on Friday, and viewers were quick to notice his reactions to watching the breakers, suggesting he found it just as hilarious as the rest of the Internet, which was full of commentary on both the incredible flips and peculiar flops by contestants.
Here were some of the initial reactions to the sport, from those praising the talent to those taking issue with a durag-wearing Lithuanian.
That's how I felt during that match snoop! #Olympics #Breakdancing pic.twitter.com/y5CiDZ8XaV
— MⓞNK BLOODY P👑s (@MonkeyBlood) August 9, 2024
Shout out Black/Latinx b-boys & b-girls in NYC who are likely in their mid-late 60s today who were harassed by cops, admonished by media, and dismissed by ‘artists’ for creating what is now a global art form #OlympicGames #breakdancing #hiphop #NYC https://t.co/c7NuJYQSlf
— CJ Smiley, Ph.D. (@UptownKastro) August 9, 2024
Olympics breakdancing is a hate crime
— Zito (@_Zeets) August 9, 2024
There's a breakdancing competition in the olympics and Australia sent a 36 year old dancer named Raygun and every clip is more incredible than the last https://t.co/4ZVJmYmIdd
— Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc (@JasonKPargin) August 9, 2024
There has not been an Olympic performance this dominant since Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint at Beijing in 2008. Honestly, the moment Raygun broke out her Kangaroo move this competition was over! Give her the #breakdancing gold 🥇
— Trapper Haskins (@TrapperHaskins) August 9, 2024
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1. Breakdancing at the Olympics is already amazing simply for the visual of seeing somebody from Lithuania in a durag
— Maxx aka Humphrey Frogart aka Maxxel Rose (@MaxxFuller) August 9, 2024
2. The announcers gotta be reaaaaallllll careful pronouncing that name 😂 pic.twitter.com/Ro6XW9vbLL
“Free Afghan women.”
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) August 9, 2024
Afghanistan’s first female Olympic breakdancer Manizha Talash competed at #Paris2024, the first Olympic Games where Breakdancing was included. Video via @Thibuch
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There’s a Lithuanian with a durag named “Nicka” competing in the break dancing contest at the Olympics. They done gentrified Nicka’s In Paris LMFAOOOOO pic.twitter.com/v6roK7TnCs
— The Black Hokage (@TheBlackHokage) August 9, 2024
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