*Breakdancing is officially an Olympic sport.
On Monday, the International Olympic Committee added the style of urban street dancing to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games. The move was made in effort to lure younger viewers.
According to CBS News, the IOC executive board also confirmed skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing will make their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games, which were postponed to July 23, 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Here’s more from the CBS report:
Alongside the additions, the IOC made subtractions: The slate of 329 medal events in Paris is 10 fewer than in Tokyo, including four lost from weightlifting, and the athlete quota in 2024 of 10,500 is around 600 less than next year. Two sports with troubled governing bodies — boxing and weightlifting — saw the biggest cuts to the number of athletes they can have in Paris.
Weightlifting could be dropped entirely due to its historic doping scandals, the report states.
The IOC said “limiting the overall number of events is a key element in curbing the growth of the Olympic program as well as additional costs.”
“With this programme, we are making the Olympic Games Paris 2024 fit for the post-corona world. We are further reducing the cost and complexity of hosting the Games. While we will achieve gender equality already at the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, we will see for the first time in Olympic history the participation of the exact same number of female athletes as male athletes. There is also a strong focus on youth,” said IOC President Thomas Bach in a press release.
Breakdancing will be called breaking at the Olympics, as it was in the 1970s by Black and Latino hip-hop pioneers.
We’re taking bets early on how many people of color (specifically Black) will participate in breaking at the 2024 Paris Games.
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