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The Olympic effect leaves breaking and its dancers ruing new version of their sport: 'I don't want to compromise'

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PARIS — Breaking was born on the streets of the Bronx, New York, and somehow, some way, it found its way here, to the Olympics, to a heavily branded, open-air arena surrounded by classical architecture, plopped in front of an overwhelmingly white European audience, into France’s most famous public square.

It came with its community divided over its elevation to this stage.