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Breaking’s Olympic Debut
A sport’s journey from the streets of New York all the way to the Paris Games.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Jonathan Abrams, Sydney Harper, Luke Vander Ploeg, Shannon M. Lin, Will Reid, Lexie Diao, MJ Davis Lin, Ben Calhoun, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong and Alyssa Moxley