Quincy Hall’s golden burners 🏃🏾‍♂️🥇

Your Olympics essentials.

• What happened yesterday: Quincy Hall won gold in the 400 meters with a spectacular finish! U.S. wrestler Sarah Hildebrant won gold! Tom Schaar won silver in the men’s skateboarding park final! Hampton Morris became the first U.S. man to medal in weightlifting in 40 years! Cyclist Kristen Faulkner became the first U.S. woman to win gold in multiple disciplines at the Olympics! Katie Moon won silver in pole vault! The U.S. artistic swimming team won silver! The U.S. women’s hoops team beat Nigeria in the quarterfinals! We made an Olympics bingo card for you! Check out all the day’s highlights .
• What’s happening today: Noah Lyles runs in the 200-meter sprint final in his quest for double gold! Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone , world record holder, competes in the 400-meter hurdles final! The U.S. men’s basketball team plays Serbia in the semifinals! The U.S. women’s water polo team plays Australia in the semifinals! The U.S. women’s volleyball team plays brazil in the semifinals! Follow all the day’s action .
• The latest medal count: Entering Thursday, the U.S. led the medal count with 94 (27 golds, 35 silvers, 32 bronze) and led the gold medal count, no ties.

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Breaking it down.

OK, I don’t know if you heard, but breaking is at the Olympics — no, it’s not called breakdancing — and it starts tomorrow with the B-girls taking the floor. So, let’s gather ‘round for a quick history lesson and run down how it works , courtesy of my colleagues Chris Bumbaca and Tom Schad.

A brief history. In the Bronx in the 1980s, DJ Kool Herc elongated the breaks in the beat – hence the term breaking – long enough for people to drop to the floor and start dancing. The breaks he invented became known as the "go off," a phrase that has found life generations after its origination. Read Boom’s feature on the complete history of breaking and how it spread globally.

On the Olympic stage. In Paris, the men’s and women’s breaking competitions will consist of a series of one-on-one battles, with each B-boy or B-girl trying to impress a panel of nine judges by executing a variety of moves. There are multiple rounds per battle, and in each round, competitors will try to land power moves – acrobatic spins, flips and the like – while also mixing in what is called “top rocking,” or dance elements performed while upright. They're also judged on criteria such as "musicality" and "vocabulary," which reflect how they interact with the music.

Though hip-hop is the soundtrack for every battle, competitors don’t know ahead of time what style or tempo of music the DJ will play during each round. The top performers are able to both practice and prepare specific combinations of moves, but then adapt to the style of the music. Creativity is one of the key criteria for judging, which is fairly subjective.

The rest of your breaking essentials.

• How Victor Montalvo honors his Mexican roots on his breaking journey to the Olympics.
• Artist or athlete ? The balance the best breakers must strike in their performances.
• How do breakers train? It's all about the core .

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