Key Points:
- The International Olympic Committee or the IOC has declared 4 new sports in the Paris Olympic Games of 2024.
- Breakdancing is one out of the 4 sports that has been shown the Green Signal by the IOC on Monday.
- It is the Paris Olympics that will have Breaking (as termed in the Olympic’s language) after the International Olympic Committee’s new rule has been declared, which allows host cities to pick and propose new games that are popular in the region.
The Olympics are to take place in 2024 in the city of Paris. The Olympics are the leading International Sports Events and recently, the International Olympic Committee or the IOC has declared 4 new sports in the Paris Olympic Games of 2024.
The @Paris2024 sports programme has been approved. It includes these main features:
– 100% gender equality
– Four additional sports: Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking
– More youth-focused events
– 10,500 athletes and 329 events#StrongerTogether— Olympics (@Olympics) December 7, 2020
Breakdancing is one out of the 4 sports that has been shown the Green Signal by the IOC on Monday. IOC President, Thomas Bach declared the addition. Surfing Skateboarding and Sports Climbing are the rest.
The inclusion comes after the Olympic Games are looking to refresh their sports program and bring in games relevant to the sponsors, broadcasters and especially the Youngsters.
What is breakdancing?
- Breakdancing or ‘breaking’, as participants would like to call it emerged in the 1970s in the United States.
- It has emerged into one of the major forms of hip-hop culture.
- Key elements in breaking include top rocks — typically a competitor’s introductory dance moves — footwork, power moves and freezes.
- Power moves are explosive displays such as spins, while freezes are when a performer sticks a pose.
It is the Paris Olympics that will have Breaking (as termed in the Olympic’s language) after the International Olympic Committee’s new rule has been declared, which allows host cities to pick and propose new games that are popular in the region.
Now it’s official ✅
Breaking will be in #Paris2024 Olympic Games for the first time in history !B-Boy, B-Girls, get ready to show the world how spectacular and great you are 👊#RoadToParis2024 pic.twitter.com/pghWNeZFX2
— Paris 2024 (@Paris2024) December 7, 2020
It will join surfing, skateboarding and climbing, which will be retained after debuts at the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021. Breakdancing will be called breaking at the Olympics, as it was in the 1970s by hip-hop pioneers in the United States. The game was proposed by the Paris organizers 2 years back after the game had shown a positive trial at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Breaking passed further stages of approval in 2019 from separate decisions by the IOC board and full membership.
Weightlifting and boxing, meanwhile, saw biggest cuts in terms of the number of athletes the two sports can have at Paris Games.
