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Canada DanceSport, Breaking Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee confirmed Wednesday that Kim will join CanadaB次元官网网址檚 Olympic team at the Paris Games.

Kim, from Vancouver, won the first gold medal in B-Boys breaking competition at the Pan American Games as the dance sport made its debut at Santiago 2023 in November.

By winning the event, he qualified to represent Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where breaking will make its Olympic debut.

Kim won CanadaB次元官网网址檚 first world title in breaking at the 2022 World DanceSport Federation championships. He was also runner-up at the 2021 and 2023 world championships.

The Olympic breaking competition takes place Aug. 9 and 10 in Paris.

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Breaking is an urban dance style that traces its origins to the Bronx in New York City during the mid-1970s.

It was added to the Paris Olympic program as a sport proposed by the Organizing Committee.

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The Canadian Press