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Breakdancing is now an official Olympic sport
Breakdancing, a revered style of hip-hop dance, has become an official Olympic sport making its debut in 2024.
Breakdancing has become an official Olympic sport.
Breakdancing in the Olympics
The International Olympic Committee officially added Breakdancing to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, reports The Chicago Tribune. It will be called breaking, as it was originally dubbed by the dancers at hip-hop’s first parties in the Bronx in the 1970s.
Breakdancing was proposed as an Olympic sport by Paris organizers almost two years ago after positive trials at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.
Olympic breaking will joining sport climbing and 3-on-3 basketball competitions at the Place de le Concorde in Paris.
All three sports will make its debut at the 2024 Tokyo Games, which were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic by one year to open on July 23, 2021.
About the dance
Created by hip-hop pioneers, breaking, also called breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, breakdancing mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes.
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