Breakdancing has officially been added to the Olympic games!
Pitchfork reports that the International Olympic Committeehas officially added Breakdancing to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. This is super cool!
The report states that It will be called "breaking", paying homage to to the original name given by the dancers at hip-hop’s first parties in the Bronx in the 1970s.
Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.
Those three sports will make their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games which were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic by one year to open on July 23, 2021.
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