2024 Paris Olympics: Hong Kong to host final round of breaking qualifier as part of packed 10 days of dance sport
- More than 400 athletes expected to descend on city for seventh stop in the Breaking For Gold World Series
- Hong Kong to host World Latin Formation Championships and Asian DanceSport Championships in December extravaganza
Hong Kong will host the final round of the Breaking for Gold World Series, an Olympic qualifier for breaking dancing, with more than 400 athletes expected to compete at Queen Elizabeth Stadium.
A total of seven events will be held this year, with the first starting on Friday in Japan and concluding in Hong Kong in December.
The series stop will form part of the Hong Kong Open, which runs from December 15 to Christmas Eve and will include three events, George Yip Chi-wai, president of the city’s DanceSport Association, told the Post.
With the World Formation Latin Championships and the Asian DanceSport Championships also due to be held during the same 10-day period, more than 800 dancers are expected to descend on the city.
Yip estimated the total budget to host the three competitions would be around HK$5 million, and said he was talking to officials to have it classed as an “M Mark” event, which would bring government funding.
“The government’s initial feedback is that they are willing to include the Breaking for Gold and the Formation Latin Worlds as ‘M Mark’ events [separately], but what we want to sell is the Hong Kong Open as a whole,” Yip said. “We will host it annually, similar to the prestigious German Open in DanceSport.”
