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Menno van Gorp competes during the World Breaking Championships in Leuven, Belgium, in 2023. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP/FileTo the tune of a Miles Davis trumpet solo, Menno van Gorp is stepping up his training ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics. “I love to practice on jazz,” van Gorp tells CNN Sport. “We’re under the flag of sports now, but to me, it’s still also an art,” says van Gorp, who calls himself an “artlete” on social media. It was in winning the UK championships in 2007 that van Gorp says he “exploded onto the scene” and started to compete more regularly.
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CNN —To the tune of a Miles Davis trumpet solo, Menno van Gorp is stepping up his training ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics. “I love to practice on jazz,” van Gorp tells CNN Sport. “I’m building here a dance studio in Rotterdam and I’m working also on the new generation here,” van Gorp explains. In order to qualify for the Games, van Gorp will hope to earn selection via the Olympic Qualifier Series in May and June. “If you want to make art,” says van Gorp, “you want to make something that’s really you – not somebody else.”
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