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Break Dancing at the Paris Olympics 2024 ?

ShootersHillGuru
ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
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Break Dancing or Breaking as those of us that are down with the kids call it is being considered for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. It’s being said that it will make the games more “urban”. 

Anyone agree ?

personally if it’s granted Olympic status I will give up on ever bothering watching it again.

Comments

  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Probably as athletic as the floor gymnastics. Some of the stuff the top level people can do is immense

     No different to the gymnastic stuff with the ball and ribbon really 

    Dunno what making something more urban is about though.  Boxing etc already in it 
  • WestStandNeil
    WestStandNeil Posts: 803
    Skateboarding
    Surfing
    Climbing

    Also shortlisted yet still no Snooker or Darts
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    WestStandNeil said:
    Skateboarding
    Surfing
    Climbing

    Also shortlisted yet still no Snooker or Darts
    Physical exertion involved in either of those things: Zero
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    As it's in France they should have Parkour. Even as a boring middle aged bloke I find it outstanding. Far more entertaining and athletic than floor gymnastics or bloody syncro swimming. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    WestStandNeil said:
    Skateboarding
    Surfing
    Climbing

    Also shortlisted yet still no Snooker or Darts
    Physical exertion involved in either of those things: Zero
    Same as Archery and all the shooting events but they all qualify.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    WestStandNeil said:
    Skateboarding
    Surfing
    Climbing

    Also shortlisted yet still no Snooker or Darts
    All of those "sports" should not be anywhere near the Olympics.
    There are many other "sports" already in I'd remove.
    Especially anything that uses marks for "style" or "artistic merit".
    I'd also say any sport that has it's own championships that are world ranked events - yes goodbye football, golf, and tennis.
    Bastardised sports should go too. Like rugby 7s.
    Also the original "sports" included for militaristic reasons. Goodbye shooting, equestrian "sports", modern pentathlon, biathlon etc.
    For me it should be back to the core sports. 
    But I'm an old fart who remembers the wonder of the games before they began to grow like Topsy.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Sport by my understanding is a physical activity - darts and snooker meet the criteria. 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited February 2019
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    Probably as athletic as the floor gymnastics. Some of the stuff the top level people can do is immense

     No different to the gymnastic stuff with the ball and ribbon really 

    Dunno what making something more urban is about though.  Boxing etc already in it 
    Love breakdancing, but keep it out of the Olympics. It’s not a sport, never has been. The clue’s in the name. It’s dancing. 
    Drop the rhythmic gymnastics while you’re at it. 

  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    I'm in.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    If it brings Seb closer to being an Olympian then I’m for it.
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  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    This sort of pastime that doesn't sit easily as a traditional athletic event, initially seems like a very odd thing to include in an Olympic games or Olympiad.  But that's me guilty of being the age I am and falling into the reactionary conservative trap beloved of so many keyboard and twatter warriors.
    Traditionally The Olympiads included competitions for all sorts of activity, physical and cerebral, not just the sporting, athletic games televised in the modern age.  Poetry at the olympics?  Yes indeed.  Cricket?  All sorts of stuff.
    I couldn't give a toss if breaking gets included as a demo or medal event.  If the IOC think it's a money spinner, or if the breaking lobby has despatched the correct inducements to the correct IOC officials, it'll be in.  So be it.  There's no obligation on anyone to watch is there? 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,241
    DRAddick said:
    As it's in France they should have Parkour. Even as a boring middle aged bloke I find it outstanding. Far more entertaining and athletic than floor gymnastics or bloody syncro swimming. 
    Watching it makes my dung button clench more than anything else. I've given up watching parkour fails on YouTube. As soon as I see a BMX rider or skateboarder go near a rail my testes end up near my kidneys and you couldn't get an American express card between the cheeks of my arse 
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Better off , making it Morris Dancing !
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,737
    Horsfield9 said:
    Better off , making it Morris Dancing !
    Maybe without the blacking up bit. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,737
    Are the Rock Steady Crew still going?

    Crazy Legs would piss the gold if he wasn’t 60. 
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Having participated in Archery for a long time until about 10 years ago, I DO consider it to be a sport.  I don't however think that break dancing should be included as an Olympic sport.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    ME14addick said:
    Having participated in Archery for a long time until about 10 years ago, I DO consider it to be a sport.  I don't however think that break dancing should be included as an Olympic sport.
    Bullseye 
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    edited February 2019
    blackpool72 said:
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    WestStandNeil said:
    Skateboarding
    Surfing
    Climbing

    Also shortlisted yet still no Snooker or Darts
    Physical exertion involved in either of those things: Zero
    Same as Archery and all the shooting events but they all qualify.
    Agreed. Don't think they should be in there either

    It's absolute bollocks that shooting is in the Olympics but Squash isn't.
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    No new sport that involves judges assessments should be allowed in. 

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