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Talking with Haitian gymnast Lynnzee Brown

Among the all-star gymnasts at this year's Paris Olympics will be Lynnzee Brown, the first female gymnast to represent Haiti at the games. The University of Denver graduate earned a universality spot given to athletes competing in certain sports for countries that have had eight or fewer athletes in the last two Olympics. Brown and Fritz Reme, chargé d'affaires abroad for the Hatian Gymnastics Federation, joined CBS News to discuss Brown's historic appearance at the Summer Games.

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The origins of breaking, the newest Olympic sport

Breaking (or breakdancing), an acrobatic dance style with its roots in New York's hip hop culture, is making its Olympic debut in this year's Summer Games in Paris. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Victor Montalvo (a.k.a. B-Boy Victor), who will be competing for breaking gold; and with founding members of the b-boy group New York City Breakers, who came up with some of the sport's original moves in the Bronx back in the late 1970s and early '80s.

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