One of the more seasoned athletes competing in Paris overall, 41-year-old Ayumi Fukushima—aka, B-girl Ayumi—didn’t get into breaking until she was 21, meaning there was a lot of battling literal kids on her road to self-sufficiently becoming one of the best breakers in the world.
“With breaking, there’s no coach,” Fukushima, who won the 2021 world title when she was 39, told Number Web, “so it’s like I was trained by the people who were around where I practiced. More experienced dancers and friends I usually train with showed me how to do the moves, and I practiced them. It was like that all along.”
Explaining her affinity for the sport, which is making its Olympics debut in Paris, she added, “There’s music, and you dance along. I began dancing like that. I really love that feeling, which I guess is the reason I’ve been doing it for so long.”
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