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Breakdancing became an official Olympic sport on Monday.
The International Olympic Committee's pursuit of urban events to lure a younger audience saw street dance battles officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.


WTAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing.

Glaston wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:11 pm Breakdancing became an official Olympic sport on Monday.
The International Olympic Committee's pursuit of urban events to lure a younger audience saw street dance battles officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.


WTAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing.

If synchronised swimming gets in there, why not.

Glaston wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:11 pm Breakdancing became an official Olympic sport on Monday.
The International Olympic Committee's pursuit of urban events to lure a younger audience saw street dance battles officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.


WTAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing.

Great. A gold medal for head spinning and backwards caterpillar.

Strictly come dancing will be there next.

I was going to rant about judged sports ... but, really, fudge the Olympics in general. All that money for what? Would be better if nations spent their cash on making it easier for people to be more active.

Niegs wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:34 pm I was going to rant about judged sports ... but, really, fudge the Olympics in general. All that money for what? Would be better if nations spent their cash on making it easier for people to be more active.

If you don’t spend the cash on running tracks and sport fields, you find it’s much harder to get fat kids into sport. Elite sport is good for everyone else.

Sandstorm wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:35 pm

Niegs wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:34 pm I was going to rant about judged sports ... but, really, fudge the Olympics in general. All that money for what? Would be better if nations spent their cash on making it easier for people to be more active.

If you don’t spend the cash on running tracks and sport fields, you find it’s much harder to get fat kids into sport. Elite sport is good for everyone else.

It is really? Yanks have top class elite athletes but their general population is fat as fúck.

Wasn't breakdancing a thing in the 80s?

Uncle fester wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:48 pm

Sandstorm wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:35 pm

Niegs wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:34 pm I was going to rant about judged sports ... but, really, fudge the Olympics in general. All that money for what? Would be better if nations spent their cash on making it easier for people to be more active.

If you don’t spend the cash on running tracks and sport fields, you find it’s much harder to get fat kids into sport. Elite sport is good for everyone else.

It is really? Yanks have top class elite athletes but their general population is fat as fúck.

Hey, I never said it was a perfect plan.

Next up: Olympic Fingerpointing, and Willy Waving. Additions post Brexit GBR stands a chance of medals at.

For Fucks Sake.

As a compromise; can we merge the new, "sports", with some of the existing ones ?

I wouldn't watch break dancing; but combine it the javelin; & it's a must watch event !

fishfoodie wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:55 pm As a compromise; can we merge the new, "sports", with some of the existing ones ?

I wouldn't watch break dancing; but combine it the javelin; & it's a must watch event !

Skate boarding and ice hockey

Surfing and weight lifting

Sport climbing and pistol shooting

Damn! This new Olympics is gonna be sweet!!!

Sandstorm wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:11 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:55 pm As a compromise; can we merge the new, "sports", with some of the existing ones ?

I wouldn't watch break dancing; but combine it the javelin; & it's a must watch event !

Skate boarding and ice hockey

Surfing and weight lifting

Sport climbing and pistol shooting

Damn! This new Olympics is gonna be sweet!!!

Show Jumping and Fencing.

Jb1981 wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:13 pm

Sandstorm wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:11 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:55 pm As a compromise; can we merge the new, "sports", with some of the existing ones ?

I wouldn't watch break dancing; but combine it the javelin; & it's a must watch event !

Skate boarding and ice hockey

Surfing and weight lifting

Sport climbing and pistol shooting

Damn! This new Olympics is gonna be sweet!!!

Show Jumping and Fencing.

Surely it has to be showjumping & pole vault ?

What event do we twin with the shooting part of that biathlon ? ... skulls or eights ?

Uncle fester wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:48 pm

Sandstorm wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:35 pm

Niegs wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:34 pm I was going to rant about judged sports ... but, really, fudge the Olympics in general. All that money for what? Would be better if nations spent their cash on making it easier for people to be more active.

If you don’t spend the cash on running tracks and sport fields, you find it’s much harder to get fat kids into sport. Elite sport is good for everyone else.

It is really? Yanks have top class elite athletes but their general population is fat as fúck.

And I didn't say don't spend it on the facilities - I implied the opposite! - just don't spend any money on the few 'elites' and all the logistics of the big dances they attend. I've seen studies that suggest 'Olympic legacy' - at best - sees a minor uptick in participation (though a few studies are dodgy to me: not compared against population increase, claiming people going for a jog or bike ride is 'athletics' and 'cycling' participation when it's more so the easiest thing to do on your own time). While there tends to be a downward trend in sport participation in many places the years following.

Compared to some sports in, or about to be in, the Olympics, breakdancing is sublimely athletic. It certainly takes more effort and skill than, say, running 100 metres (and that's coming from a track man).

Personally, I'd eliminate all team sports, all sports that have their own 'olympics' (e.g., tennis), and all judged events. But since there's about as much chance of that happening as there is of me being transformed into a fire engine, there's no point in being snotty about breakdancing.

Whatever next, pole dancing?

Making the Olympics even more of an obsolete, irrelevant, costly, PITA than it's already become.

dkm57 wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:29 am Making the Olympics even more of an obsolete, irrelevant, costly, PITA than it's already become.

I much prefer the winter olympics these days

Slick wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:06 am

dkm57 wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:29 am Making the Olympics even more of an obsolete, irrelevant, costly, PITA than it's already become.

I much prefer the winter olympics these days

absolutely

Slick wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:06 am

dkm57 wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:29 am Making the Olympics even more of an obsolete, irrelevant, costly, PITA than it's already become.

I much prefer the winter olympics these days

Clay pigeon shooting and ski jump would be one I'd watch!..

TB63 wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:07 pm

Slick wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:06 am

dkm57 wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:29 am Making the Olympics even more of an obsolete, irrelevant, costly, PITA than it's already become.

I much prefer the winter olympics these days

Clay pigeon shooting and ski jump would be one I'd watch!..

Speed skating and shotput

Totally fucking barking.

I mean it is undoubtedly athletic, you can award Mark's for its technical and artistic merit, like ice skating or dressage or like a dozen other things that happen on ski slopes, or in gymnasiums, that they stick Olympic medals on.

There is no logical reason why you shouldn't have it.


I guess you could say public school cunts don't do it, and it is more a street, or working class form of expression, that doesn't involve daddy having to buy you horse or a boat or a ski lodge.

Line6 HXFX wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:02 pm I mean it is undoubtedly athletic, you can award Mark's for its technical and artistic merit, like ice skating or dressage or like a dozen other things that happen on ski slopes, or in gymnasiums, that they stick Olympic medals on.

There is no logical reason why you shouldn't have it.


I guess you could say public school cunts don't do it, and it is more a street, or working class form of expression, that doesn't involve daddy having to buy you horse or a boat or a ski lodge.

Is running and jumping not enough for these people? Next we’ll have handbag snatching and car stealing

Tbf break dancing is more athletic than say garden bowls and shooting.

Breakdancing is no more idiotic than horse ballet, synchronised swimming or the triple jump, which have all been Olympic for ages.

It's a shame that is a judged sport - get them all out of the Olympics, in particular gymnastics which is just the acceptable face of child exploitation anyway.

Although the worst of all judged sports has to be ski jumping - a perfectly fine competition to see who can jump the furthest ruined by points given for how aesthetically pleasing the jump was.