New Olympic Sport - Breaking

[SpentTeabags]

Anyone going to be watching this today and tomorrow?

This was huge when I was growing up circa early 90s (I grew up in the Los Angeles area, not sure if it was big in the UK as well?), I used to love watching people breakdancing. Something so cool about it.

I will watch because I enjoy watching sport and try to watch a bit of all the different sports at the Olympics. You barely get the chance to see these sports most of the time.

Interested to see how standings and medals get decided etc.

In breaking

What time please? And which channel? thanks!

On BBC it starts at 15:00 today for the womens, tomorrow same time for the mens.

I read this just now:

How does Olympic breaking work?
Dancers will compete in one-on-one battles consisting of two 60-second throw downs (three in the knockout phase), with DJs spinning the music, a host on the microphone and nine judges who vote at the end of each battle to decide the winner.
A DJ selects the music and decides which tracks will be played during the battle while breakers freestyle or improvise their routines, taking it in turns to show their moves and receiving marks for technique, vocabulary (the variety of moves incorporated), execution, musicality and originality.
Instead of scoring each of these criteria, judges use a digital slider, sliding towards the breaker who is winning the head-to-head match-up. So, if breaker A is performing better than breaker B, judges will move the slider towards their side.
Each of the five categories accounts for 20% of the final score. Based on the average of the sliders in these five criteria, one breaker is named the winner of each round.

Ah! Thanks for the c&p offer that explanation @SpentTeabags

Thanks @SpentTeabags will defo watch it 🙌🏻