Sunny Choi might be among the many first Individuals to look on Crew USA’s breaking workforce later this summer season as the game takes maintain of the Olympics for the primary time.
Choi might be carrying the red, white and blue together with three different breaking opponents.
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Breaking athlete Sunny Choi poses for a portrait in the course of the 2024 Crew USA Media Summit at Marriott Marquis Lodge on April 16, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Al Bello/Getty Photographs)
However the 35-year-old Tennessee native admitted to Fox Information Digital in an interview final week that she “struggled” with the concept of what it meant to characterize the USA on the worldwide stage. She mentioned she wasn’t essentially the most patriotic individual rising up.
“Rising up, I by no means actually favored carrying USA issues or I wasn’t ever very patriotic. So, initially it was a bit of difficult for me,” Choi mentioned.
“However all through this course of, I acquired to see one thing actually particular that sports activities does that not many different issues do in life and it’s that it unites us in a approach that nearly nothing else does. To see folks from all completely different locations all coming collectively for one trigger and to have the ability to join and cheer to your favourite folks and root for all the opposite nations. It was simply such a gorgeous expertise to have the ability to join in that approach that I spotted that is what representing Crew USA is about. Like, that is what our nation is.”
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Sunny Choi poses in the course of the Crew USA Paris 2024 Olympic Portrait Shoot at NBC Common Studios Stage 16 on Nov. 18, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Harry How/Getty Photographs)
Choi, who spoke to Fox Information Digital on behalf of her partnership with Blume, mentioned that whereas she’s anxious about collaborating within the Video games for the primary time, she’s “tremendous proud” to have the ability to characterize the U.S.
“At this time moving into, I’m tremendous proud to have the ability to characterize Crew USA and actually proud to be type of on this motion that actually brings folks collectively in a really particular approach,” she mentioned.
Breakdancing, higher often called breaking, is making its Olympics debut. The competitors runs over the course of two days (Aug. 9 and 10). The performers might be scored primarily based on the varied combos of dance strikes as a DJ performs music.
Silver medalist Logan Edra, gold medalist Sunny Choi, and bronze medalist B-Lady Mantis pose with their medals after the Breaking For Gold USA regional competitors at Industria on April 22, 2023, in Brooklyn. (Elsa/Getty Photographs)
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Choi received a silver medal within the 2022 World Video games and a gold medal within the Pan American Video games final yr. Victor Montalvo, Jeffery Louis and Logan “Logistx” Edra are on the breaking team with Choi.
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