CRETEIL, France (AP) — In a sweltering enclosed stage, several dancers perform synchronized routines before scattering, as others practice twisting handstands and tumbles. Amid this, Mourad Merzouki ...

THE WATER WARMS. THANKS. ALL RIGHT. FOR THE FIRST TIME, ATHLETES WILL COMPETE IN BREAKDANCING AT THE SUMMER OLYMPICS IN PARIS. BUT THE SPORT IS BREAKING GROUND IN ORANGE COUNTY AND HELPING SET KIDS ON ...

Get ready for plenty of how-did-they-do-that moments when the Paris Games introduce break-dancing as an official Olympic sport. Bodies will be contorted, gravity will seemingly be defied, and athletes ...

PARIS, France — The wait is over for the newest sport at the Olympic Games. Dance fans are about to watch an entirely new event take the stage for the first time: the competitive dance-off known as ...

PARIS, France — In the basement of a sports complex in Paris, dozens of breakers, or break dancers, gathered almost every weeknight in July to freestyle, practicing classic moves like the windmill, ...