Advertisement

Olympics: breakdancing and surfing among four sports to win Paris 2024 spot

  • Breakdancing will be included in the 2024 Games programme, while the other three will be competed at 2021’s delayed Tokyo Games.

Reading Time:2 minutes
Why you can trust SCMP
Brazilian breakdancer Mateus de Sousa Melo aka Bart competes during the Red Bull BC One, the breakdance one-on-one battle world championship in Mumbai. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has chosen to integrate breakdancing into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Photo: AFP
Breakdancing, surfing, skateboarding and sports climbing won a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics when the International Olympic Committee ratified their inclusion on Monday, IOC president Thomas Bach said.
Advertisement

The Paris 2024 organising committee had last year proposed the four sports for inclusion and was waiting on a final review by the IOC’s Executive Board.

Surfing, climbing and skateboarding are already part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, having by proposed along with karate by the Japanese hosts.

Paris Games organisers have said they want to deliver a programme that is in keeping with the times and will attract a new and younger audience.

Advertisement

Under new IOC rules first introduced for the Tokyo Games, Olympic host cities can hand-pick sports and propose them for inclusion in those Games if they are popular in that country and add to the Games’ appeal.

The IOC also trimmed the overall events for Paris by 10 to 329 compared to the Tokyo Games next year, while increasing mixed gender events from 18 in Tokyo to 22 in four years time.

Advertisement