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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.
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.
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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.

“With this programme, we are making the Olympic Games Paris 2024 fit for the post-corona world,” Bach said. “We are further reducing the cost and complexity of hosting the Games.
“There is also a strong focus on youth,” he added.
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The IOC also capped the total athlete quota to exactly 10,500. The recent summer Olympics had seen an increase to more than 11,000. There will also be exactly 50 per cent men and 50 per cent women athletes in Paris, up from 48.8 per cent women in Tokyo.

“While we will achieve gender equality already at the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, we will see for the first time in Olympic history the participation of the exact same number of female athletes as male athletes,” Bach said.
“It’s a nice reference to the 1900 Paris Olympics, when it was the first time that women were at the Games,” Jean-Philippe Gatien, sports director for Paris 2024, told reporters at the Paris 2024 headquarters on Monday.
“It suits perfectly what we want to do with those Games. It will be Games that are young, urban and creatives.”
The IOC is desperate to refresh the Games’ sports programme to remain relevant to sponsors, broadcasters and younger fans.


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

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

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2018, file photo, participants of the Parkour Generations work on their practice runs outside of Wembley Stadium ahead of the 13th Rendezvous International Parkour Gathering in London. Global organizers of parkour are urging the IOC not to add the street-running sport to the 2024 Paris Olympics at a meeting next week. The Parkour Earth group has for years opposed what it calls a “hostile takeover” of the sport by the Olympic-recognized International Gymnastics Federation. Parkour Earth said Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 in an open letter to the International Olympic Committee that the world gymnastic body's "encroachment and misappropriation of our sport continues.” (AP Photo/Nishat Ahmed, File)

This handout picture taken and released on December 7, 2020 by the International Olympic Committee shows IOC president Thomas Bach speaking during an IOC Executive Board Meetings at Olympic House in Lausanne. - Breakdancing was one of four new sports along with skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing to get the Olympic green light on Decmber 7, 2020 for inclusion at the 2024 Paris Games. (Photo by Greg MARTIN / OIS/IOC / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / IOC / GREG MARTIN " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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A man holds a poster reading “How much more blood will it take?” during protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in August. Photo: dpa

Demonstrators wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, at right one waves an old Belarusian national flag, during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Protests in Belarus have continued for almost four months after President Alexander Lukashenko won his sixth term in office in an election the opposition says was rigged. (AP Photo)

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IOC handout photo of its president Thomas Bach who will visit Tokyo Games hosts Japan November 15-18

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



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