(ATR) Breakdancing will become the newest Olympic sport if Paris 2024 organizers get their way.
It is one of four sports - along with surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing – that made the final cut to be added to the sports program for the 2024 Olympics in the French capital.
"These sports have in common their youth, the call to creativity, they are spectacular and demanding!" Tony Estanguet, the Paris 2024 organizing committee president, said in a tweet.
Breakdancing, or breaking, debuted at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires in October but has never been part of a full Olympics.
Surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing will be making their Olympic debuts in Tokyo in 2020.
Among the sports on the outside looking in are squash, snooker, chess, karate and baseball/softball. The latter two are in the Tokyo 2020 program.
Baseball/softball is all but guaranteed to return to the Olympic program in 2028 when the Games are in Los Angeles.
Beginning with Tokyo 2020, the IOC gave Olympic host cities the right to propose sports that are popular in the host country and add to the appeal of the Games.
The IOC still needs to give final approval to the choices made by the Paris 2024 organizers.
They will now be reviewed by the IOC Olympic Program Commission and IOC Executive Board, with recommendations for initial approval made to the IOC Session meeting in Lausanne in June. If approved, these sports will be considered for inclusion in the 2024 Games – but only after a thorough review of the five new sports on the Tokyo 2020 program, which would happen in the autumn next year.
The final event program and athlete quotas for any new sports for Paris 2024 will be finalized by the IOC executive board in December 2020.
Written by Gerard Farek
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