Team USA wants a gold medal in breaking at the 2024 Olympics "to put some of that shine back onto the community"
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Sunny Choi has received clear instructions from her fellow New Yorkers: Bring a gold medal home, to where her sport started.
"I don't know how often people are like: 'You don't have a choice. Like, you've got to bring it home for New York," said the 35-year-old breaker, who was born in Tennessee but now lives in Queens.
Choi is one of four Team USA b-boys and b-girls, as competitors are known, competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. At a news conference on Tuesday, all of them expressed their pride at being able to represent the roots of the sport, also known as breakdancing, in its Summer Games debut.

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