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Breakdancing At The 2024 Paris Olympics? Here’s Why It Makes Perfect Sense

by Alfonso Murray
October 24, 2024
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Breakdancing, a dance style that commenced in the 1970s in the Bronx in New York City, may be protected in the 2024 Paris Olympics alongside skateboarding, browsing, and mountaineering. Speaking at a press convention in Paris on Thursday, Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, called the possible inclusion of the four sports activities “a primary breakthrough in our ambition to organize precise Olympic Games.” However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) might not make a final choice on the Paris 2024 sports activities program till after the 2020 Tokyo Games; the information has already caused a bit of a stir.

Breakdancing At The 2024 Paris Olympics? Here's Why It Makes Perfect Sense 1

Breakdancing seems quite tame in assessment.” The World Squash Federation and the Professional Squash Association, lobbying tough for Olympic inclusion, stated that they had acquired the information from Paris “with top-notch disappointment. “Just looking down the list of unusual Olympic sports,” tweeted Richard Conway, the BBC’s sports news correspondent. “Horse long soar (1900) Plunge for distance (1904) Tug of conflict (1900-1920) Solo synchronized swimming (1984) one hundred-meter freestyle for Greek sailors (1896) Swimming obstacle race (1900).

The viable inclusion of the four youngsters’ sports activities directly results from sweeping adjustments IOC president Thomas Bach has applied as part of his so-called Olympic Agenda 2020, which aims to overhaul the Games and broaden its appeal to younger viewers. Among its forty-pointers, it allows host towns to include new sports activities famous for their vicinity.

Breakdancing, or ‘breaking,’ is highly famous in France, where about 1,000,000 humans exercise the game, according to the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) website. The Olympics, the world’s biggest sports event, first held in 1896, has struggled to appeal to millennials. In reality, the Olympic viewership is growing over every Olympic cycle. For instance, television scores for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics on U.S. broadcaster NBC had been down 15% compared to the 2012 Summer Games held in London, in keeping with a 2016 record on adage.com. The Rio Games had been “the oldest-skewing Olympics going lower back to 1960, the year the Olympics had been first televised in the U.S. The median age of the Rio

Games became fifty-two—four years, up 6% from London’s 49. Five years and up 15% compared to the 2000 Sydney Olympics (45. Five years),” in step with Ad Age. Can Paris flip the tide and make the Olympics cool once more? Estanguet, a  3-time Olympic canoe champion, certainly appears to suppose so. “Right from the beginning, our intention turned into offering games that would have an effect and the detail of surprise,” he stated. “This is why we’ve chosen to offer the IOC with four sports that are as innovative as outstanding, geared toward young people, and absolutely in step with our vision. We are certain that breaking, skateboarding, sports mountaineering, and browsing will reinforce our undertaking.

Breaking became a significant hit at the remaining year’s Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, attracting as many as ninety 000 spectators daily, in line with WDSF. Russian athlete ‘Bumblebee’ (actual call: Sergey Chernyshov) and ‘Ram’ of Japan (real name:

Ramu Kawai) has become the first-ever young Olympic gold medalist in the game in Buenos Aires. “Paris 2024 is the largest breakthrough that breaking ever made,” Mounir, a prominent French breakdancer who served as a decision on the Youth Olympics, informed journalists in Paris. “It’s time to give again self-assurance to the adolescents worldwide and trade the face of the Olympic Games.

Alfonso Murray

Alfonso Murray

Alcohol practitioner. Tv lover. Web fanatic. Bacon fan. Friendly organizer. Troublemaker. Food buff. Had some great experience marketing etch-a-sketches in Jacksonville, FL. Practiced in the art of writing about pogo sticks in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Spent college summers selling g.i. joes in Libya. Spent 2001-2007 promoting barbie dolls in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Spent the better part of the 90's marketing cannibalism on the black market. Had some great experience implementing fatback in Mexico.

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