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Breakdancing could become an Olympic sport in 2024
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 22 February 2019
Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are proposing to the International Olympic Committee that breakdancing should be added to the big sporty bash that year. It featured at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires last year but has never been part of the main event before.
The head of the Paris 2024 organising committee said that he thought adding things like breakdancing into the Olympics mix would make the games feel “more urban” and “more artistic”. And who doesn’t what their big sporting parties to feel more urban and more artistic?
Team GB didn’t put anyone forward for the breakdancing contest in Buenos Aires last year, but says that it might at future games, if the IOC decide to add it. The BBC quote a Team GB spokesperson as saying: “We look forward to welcoming all new sports into the Olympic Games and will work with the relevant bodies to develop our relationships at the appropriate time”.
“Although we did not compete in what was an invitational event at the recent Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, we did witness the popularity of breakdancing among fans there”.
