Breakdancing given provisional green light for Paris 2024

World
Europe

Breakdancing is among the four sports given a provisional green light for inclusion in the Paris 2024 Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday, IOC President Thomas Bach said.

The Paris 2024 organizing committee in February proposed surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing as well as breakdancing for inclusion in the Games.

"We decided to recommend the four sports (for ratification) to the IOC session in June in Lausanne," Bach told a news conference. "It is a provisional inclusion because the final decision should only be taken at the end of 2020."

The 65-year-old said he admires breakdancing movements, "There's a very authentic expression, you feel the performance and the personalities of the athletes."

Breakdancing is among the four sports given a provisional green light for inclusion in the Paris 2024 Games by the International Olympic Committee, Paris, February 21, 2019. /VCG Photo

Bach added that the inclusion of the four sports will make the Paris Olympics "more gender-balanced, more youthful and more urban", and "offer the opportunity to connect with the young generation."

Climbing, skateboarding and surfing will make their Olympic debut in Tokyo next year where they will be subject to a "program of monitoring."

Breakdancing, which is not on the Tokyo schedule, was figured in the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires last October.

Source(s): AFP ,Reuters