Posted on 02/20/2019 12:54:43 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Breakdancing is one of four additional sports expected to be included at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris along with surfing, sport climbing and skateboarding, sources indicated Wednesday.
The list of additions is due to be revealed by the local organising committee (OCOG) on Thursday and must be signed off on by the International Olympic Committee.
Their inclusion would come on top of the 28 sports already on the programme, although the Paris 2024 committee did not confirm the reports to AFP.
Breakdancing, an acrobatic style of street dance typically set to hip-hop or funk music, would be making its first appearance in the Olympics, while the three other sports will all be introduced at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
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Lord the Olympics have hit total rock bottom. I haven’t watched either the winter or summer in many years. For me the heyday was back in the 1960’s and early 1970’s when ABC covered them and did a very good job. Since NBC took over they have been terrible.
Also since they have pretty much eliminated Amateur’s from competing it’s a real farce, no purity about the sports what so ever. Avery Brundage may have been a pill at times but he kept the Olympics clean in his years of running things.
With this devolving world this makes sense.
Dancing, surfing, sport climbing and skateboarding. They just need sponsors. The Olympics will still be boring. Here’s a nice French break dance.
https://youtu.be/MY1iwXeBP38
This is a joke, right? You’ve got to be kidding!
Why not ballet then?
#CulturalSewer
Poland could win it!
Big Chuck and LIl John certain ethnic Break Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RRXsEeBTI
Or maybe Japan would take the title:
Tokyo Rockabilly Greasers dancers in Yoyogi Park - Japanese Rockers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnLQvHi3sBw
>>Why do we still have the Olympic Games? It seems to be an incredible waste of money.
Because of sex and bribery and promises of huge profit
Why not pedo-whoring like the international Olympic committee.
Will they provide the cardboard?
Pathetic.
This is just like adding those millennial “X-Games” events at the Winter Olympics.
Follow the money.
Urban obstacle course racing (what is the name of the activity for urban obstacle course physical skills?) would be a valid activity. It would be a much more valid way to be current and relevant. Things like jumping fences are included.
May as well include medals for flatulence, too.
Not long until lightsaber fencing becomes an Olympic sport.
Air guitar!
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