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Breaking away: Sunny Choi's six-figure Olympic gamble

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henry bushnell

Senior reporter

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PARIS — Sunny Choi was a “lost” college freshman when, on a drunken night out, she found her path to the Olympics.

She was a washed-up former gymnast at perhaps the most prestigious business school on the planet, Wharton, when she found a group of University of Pennsylvania students dancing.

They invited her to a class. She was, at the time, following a traditional path, via Penn to corporate America — but dispassionately, aimlessly. So she joined them. And there, first on a campus walkway, then at Penn’s famed Rotunda, she found her calling — she “stumbled into breaking.