Olympic breakdancer 'Logistx' discusses why USA 'needs to' win gold in Paris: 'We deserve this'

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Breakdancing is rather far down the list of activities in terms of popularity among the youth.

But it has one characteristic that not even football and baseball have: It's an Olympic sport.

"Breaking" will be featured in the Olympics for the first time ever this month, and as Team USA dancer Logan "Logistx" Edra put it, "We deserve this."

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Logan Edra, aka Logistx, performs at the WDSF World Breaking Championship 2023 in Leuven, Belgium, on Sept. 23, 2023. (Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)

"It's all about being present, because we don't know what's going to happen after this big moment in terms of opportunities from outside our scene," Edra, 21, said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

The San Diego native began dancing at the age of 7, and although she attended competitions throughout her life, never in her wildest dreams would she have once thought she'd be going for Olympic gold.

But now that the Olympics is putting Edra's "artistic sport" on the map, she says she feels a "responsibility" and a "need" to win.

"For me, I'm representing where breaking's from, the birthplace of hip-hop, and we need to win because it's going to help the culture, at the end of the day," Edra said. "In Europe and Asia, they have more government support for their breakers. For us, it's harder because there's a lot of traditional sports that are very popular amongst the youth.

"Me and my crew here in Miami, we have a breaking school, and it's so up-and-down. I know life is like this, but I can't wait until this gets to a point where we can just have consistent students and know there is a future