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Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« on: December 07, 2020, 03:51:14 pm »
Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
Dec. 7, 2020
New York Post
By Jackie Salo
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Breakdancing has become an official Olympic sport for the 2024 games in Paris.

The International Olympic Committee officially added the dance-offs Monday in an attempt to attract younger audiences to the athletic competition, Sky News reported.

The street-dancing competition will be called breaking at the Olympics, as it was originally in the 1970s, ESPN reported. ...

Other sports confirmed for the 2024 lineup include skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing. ...
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Re: Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2020, 06:03:30 pm »
Well, they've got synchronized swimming don't they? What's next......spinning in a circle with your forehead on a baseball bat and then run around the arena?
Did that in sophomore high school gym class. The "teacher," also basketball, baseball, and big-time jerk thought it was a hoot to see kids try to run around the gym after spinning around ten times and then fall down or run into the doors of the gym like one kid did.

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Re: Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2020, 06:09:32 pm »
I was hoping for Olympic tiddlywinks. 
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Re: Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2020, 06:21:06 pm »
I was hoping for Olympic tiddlywinks.

Far more interesting. 

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Re: Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2020, 08:58:22 pm »
Parkour (check it out on YT) would be a great Olympic sport. It's been proposed but not okayed.

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Re: Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2020, 09:57:37 pm »
The Olympics - Electric Boogaloo!

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Re: Breakdancing added to 2024 Olympic games in Paris
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2020, 09:29:16 am »
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