The International Olympic Committee has added four “urban sports” to the 2024 Paris Olympics, which it said will be focused on “gender equality and youth.”
Those four sports are break dancing, skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing.
The committee described the four urban sports as a “concept” that has been “expanded, showcasing youth-focused events which are inclusive, engaging and can be practiced outside conventional arenas.”
Reaction on social media has been mixed but less than enthusiastic.
- “When you think 2020 can dish out any more nonsense! Break dancing. Get real. An art form, entertainment, not an Olympic sport.”
- “Break dancing is now an Olympic sport. No words.”
- “Break dancing was added as an Olympic sport. Baseball and wrestling were dropped! Excuse me? Am I missing something? Good grief. I’ll just stick to watching the equestrian events and the biathlon.”
There will be 32 boys and 32 girls competing in break dancing. The committee said it also has achieved 100% gender equality in athlete quotas with “exactly 50% male and female participation.”
Twenty two events will be mixed gender while 28 out of 32 “sports will be fully gender equal.”
“With this [program], we are making the Olympic Games Paris 2024 fit for the post-corona world. We are further reducing the cost and complexity of hosting the Games. 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. There is also a strong focus on youth,” said IOC President Thomas Bach.
The committee said, “The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 next year will be the first gender equal Olympic Games, with an overall 48.8 percent female participation, which will be further increased at Paris 2024, reaching the exact same number of male and female athletes for the first time in Olympic history.
Athletics, boxing and cycling will reach full gender equality for the first time ever at Paris 2024, meaning 28 out of 32 sports on the Paris 2024 [program] will be fully gender balanced.
Paris 2024 will also mark a growth in mixed events on the [program], compared to Tokyo 2020, from 18 to 22.”
While the four urban sports have been added, the committee reduced the overall number of events from 339 to 329.
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