Victor Montalvo and Jeffrey Louis tell PEOPLE what they want viewers to know about breaking, the newest Olympic sport debuting at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Victor Montalvo and Jeffrey Louis tell PEOPLE what they want viewers to know about the newest Olympic sport ahead of the 2024 Games in ParisNatasha Dye is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering sports. Her previous work appears in The New York Post and Popstar! Magazine.Julie Mazziotta is the Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone Biles and Tom Brady.
And to this day, Montalvo's father "still dances," he says. "He still whips out a back-spin. He'll come to the backyard or he'll come while I'm training with my friends with his beer, and he's like, yo, hold my beer." With the world about to be introduced to breaking, Montalvo and Louis are excited to share the sport.
Moreover, breaking in the Olympics adds another layer of difficulty because the athletes will enter the event unaware of the music they'll be competing to, Montalvo explains.
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