For those who play, breaking is “both a sport and a culture and even if the competitions were to stop it will never die”. The movement is growing, as confirmed by the recent world championships, but it will not be there at the 2028 Los Angeles Games
“Who else shows up at the Olympics with a DJ?”, asked the German Sanja Jilwan Rasul, stage name B-Girl Jilou, in the summer of 2024. In one sentence, a great truth. Try playing football without a ball, playing a game of tennis without a racket, swimming without water: impossible. The essential element of breaking – the controversial sport that debuted at the Paris Games, but which after its debut in Place de la Concorde will not be part of the next Olympic program – is music. And consequently the true protagonists of each event, more than the referees, the judges and in a certain sense even the athletes themselves, are precisely them: the DJs.