Hey b-boys and b-girls: Breakdancing is finally an Olympic sport
The 2024 Paris Olympics just got way more fresh, with the International Olympic Committee announcing that it’s adding four new medal-eligible sports to the program: skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, and breakdancing. Those first three will actually make their debut at the postponed Tokyo games, starting on July 23, 2021, but the IOC will be saving the flipping, freezing, gyros, and heelspins of breakdancing for Paris. This comes from the Associated Press, which says these four events have been chosen as part of the organization’s plan to use more “urban events” to “lure a younger audience” to the Olympics. (We don’t know what “urban” specifically means here, since it somehow applies to surfing, but it’s hopefully not being used as a shockingly outdated euphemism.)