The International Olympic Committee has added breakdancing as an Olympic sport for the 2024 Summer Games which will happen in Paris, ESPN reports. The sport will be called "breaking" at the Olympics, reflecting its original name in the late '70s. Sport climbing, skateboarding, surfing. and 3-on-3 basketball have also been added as new competitions, making their debut at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo which were postponed from this summer due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Breakdancing now is one step closer to being included in the 2024 Olympics - it’s been provisionally approved, along with skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing, to be included in Paris 2024, with skateboarding and surfing already set to debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games. “The four sports that Paris has proposed are all totally in […]

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The organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics have proposed breakdancing as one of the new olympic sports - others that are being considered for inclusion are surfing, climbing, and skateboarding, which are already slated to make their Olympics debut the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Breakdancing was a part of the program at the 2018 Youth […]