Sunny Choi dishes on journey to Team USA as one of country's first Olympic B-Girls

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Sunny Choi will be among the athletes on Team USA’s first Olympic breakdancing team headed to Paris later this summer.

The 35-year-old Tennessee native is unlike most Olympians.

Choi was a gymnast growing up and committed to a Division 1 school to compete in gymnastics, but she was forced out due to knee injuries. Trying to just stay active while attending the University of Pennsylvania, Choi came upon a few people who were breakdancing on campus. She was signed up by a few recruiters looking for more participants in their club, and it stuck from there.

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U.S. Olympic athlete Sunny Choi poses for a photo at the USOC Media Summit in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Mariott Marquis in New York City on April 16, 2024. (Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports)

"Initially, it was just being upside down and the physical challenges of breaking that I really fell in love with, but what really kept me was the community and the creative aspect, and it challenged me in ways that I wasn’t challenged in the rest of my life and I felt like I was really growing a lot through it," Choi told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.

Choi, who is known as a "B-Girl" in her sport, said she never had any inclination to be an Olympian. She said she was working a corporate job at Estée Lauder and still practicing four to six days a week.

"I was breaking on the side of working corporate until I decided to really make the jump, really take the leap and go for the Olympics. And at that point, I quit my job."

Choi said she never thought breaking would ever be in the Olympics – but not for the