However, it possesses one quality that neither baseball nor football do: it is an Olympic sport.
It’s all about being present, because we don’t know what’s going to happen after this big moment in terms of opportunities from outside our scene,” 21-year-old Edra said in a recent interview with News . “Breaking” will be featured in the Olympics for the first time ever this month, and as Team USA dancer Logan “Logistx” Edra put it, “We deserve this.”
The San Diego native started dancing at the age of seven, and although though she competed throughout her childhood, she never would have imagined.
But now that Edra’s “artistic sport” is becoming well-known thanks to the Olympics, she claims she has a “need” and a “responsibility” to succeed.
“For me, I’m representing where breaking’s from, the birthplace of hip-hop, and we need to win because it’s going to help the culture, at the end of the day,” Edra stated. “Governments help their breakers more in Europe and Asia. Due to the prevalence of conventional sports among young people, it is more difficult for us.
