US Olympian who quit six-figure marketing job to pursue breakdancing knocked out in round-robin; what's next?

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American breaker Sunny Choi quit her job as a marketing executive to headline the United States' first-ever Olympic breaking team. But now she'll leave Paris empty-handed after being eliminated from quarterfinal contention even before her third battle. 

Choi finished her Olympic run with a victory, defeating Portugal's Vanessa, 2-0, in the round-robin. But it wasn't enough to earn her a spot in the knockout stage. She ranked third in her respective group but needed a top-two finish. 

Now, she will head home without any certainty of being able to compete in the Olympics again. It's an outcome Choi accepted when she stepped away from her job as director of global creative operations for skin care at Estée Lauder, the second-largest cosmetics company in the world, in January 2023. 

"I literally worked my whole entire life to have that financial stability, and then to give it up for this dream that may or may not happen was really, really scary," Choi told reporters of her decision to quit her job for breaking. "Initially, I was just, 'I don't want to give up my current lifestyle.' I was comfortable. I could buy whatever I wanted. I shopped at Whole Foods."

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Breaking athlete Sunny Choi poses for a portrait during the 2024 Team USA Media Summit at Marriott Marquis Hotel April 16, 2024, in New York City.  (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

And for Choi, there were greater sacrifices at stake than just the financial ones. 

"As a breaker, I was just like, ‘I don’t see how this is going to be possible.' And then there are other factors. Like I want to have kids at some point, and I'm 35 now. So, it's like, ‘Am I