The WDSF BfG World Series – Kitakyushu 2023 competition, in Japan, will open the way for the breaking towards the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesin which Isis granda wants to be the pioneer of Ecuador. A ticket to glory that at the level of America begins to be disputed in the Pan American Games Santiago 2023next October and November.
“What I have to do to qualify for the Pan American Games is rank, earn points. The one in Japan (The WDSF BfG World Series) is a strategic competition to be able to win (ranking) points to go on to qualify”, the athlete from Guayaquil told EL UNIVERSO.
In an interview she gave last December during a lightning visit to her hometown, the champion of the Red Bull BC One Cypher USA 2021 He said that his goal is set towards Paris, he has already met with the Minister of Sports, and the Ecuadorian Federation of Sports Dance held the Ecuadorian National Breaking Championship on the 10th of that month to choose Team Ecuador. Isis won first place in the competition.
His first mission of the year will be to score the most points in the BfG World Series in Japan, then he will head to Brazil, Portugal, Belgium and another competition in Chile that will take place before the Pan American Games. He will not attend the European Games, he specifies.
Isis explains that of the fifteen events that appear in the 2023 Breaking calendar “as an Ecuadorian I can go” only to the competitions of the six countries that she mentioned above because they are the ones she has selected and they fit her strategy.
“If I go to (events) Asia it is quite complicated because the level of Asians is very different, but speaking of all of America, of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, I feel that I have a good chance; In other words, it is a bit fought but it is not that the competition is super-fought ”, she emphasizes.
BfG World Series are the events that have the highest score, Challenge Series They are the ones with the lowest score and World Breaking Championship It is obviously the mother tournament of this sport. The Gameswhich are held by continent, have a direct place for the Olympic Games.
“This 2023 you have to go step by step, before wanting to reach the Olympic Games I have to think about reaching the Pan American Games, and how am I going to achieve it? going to these different competitions that I already have marked and hopefully I can go to all of them. And already being in the Pan American Games, winning them, to finally reach the Olympics”she says, excited, after the medical appointment at the Shockprot center, where she gave this interview.
How many athletes will compete in Breaking in Paris 2024?
The official site of the Olympic Games indicates that a total of 32 athletes (16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls) will compete for the first medals in history in the Olympic sport of breaking.
There will be a maximum of four athletes per NOC (two per gender), while the host country, France, has secured two (one per gender) and the Tripartite Commission will allocate four Universality slots (two per gender). To be eligible for a universality slot, athletes must participate in the Olympic qualification series and place in the top 32 in the final OQS rankings.
That leaves 26 quota slots available, which will be allocated to athletes by name during the qualification period.
Although breaking is known as a youth sport, not all dancers can compete in the Olympic Games. Among other criteria, B-Boys and B-Girls must have been born before December 31, 2008.
The qualification track for Paris 2024
There will be three competitions in which athletes can secure a spot for breaking’s debut in Paris 2024: The 2023 World Championships, the Continental Games/Championships, and the Olympic Qualifying Series.
World Championship 2023
The top two athletes (one per gender) qualified to compete in the Olympic breaking will be the B-Boy and B-Girl who are named champions at the 2023 WDSF World Championships, which will take place in Belgium (September 23-24, 2023).
Continental Games/Continental Championships
A total of 10 athletes (five per gender) they will get their quota from the Continental Games or Continental Championships of their regions. Always respecting the maximum number of athletes per NOC, they will be the best ranked B-Boy and B-Girl in the following Continental Games/Championships:
- Africa – Date and place to be defined
- Asia – September 23 – October 8, 2023, People’s Republic of China: Asian Games
- Europe – June 21-July 2, 2023: Continental Qualifier
- Oceania – Date and place to be defined
- America – October 20-November 5, 2023, Chile: Pan American Games in Santiago
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Source: Eluniverso
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