In addition to the standard events of the Summer Olympics, Gymnastics And a new sport called beach volleyball will be held in Paris in 2024.
Breakdancing, its official name breaking newswill be the only new sport to debut during this period. Paris OlympicsSeveral sports featured for the first time at the Tokyo Olympics will also be making a comeback.
Here’s everything you need to know about the new Olympic sports being introduced at the Paris Games.
Breakdancing to be a new Olympic sport at the Paris 2024 Games
of A history of destruction, Breakdancing began in New York City in the 1970s. The dance style grew out of hip hop culture and features “athletic moves that include spins, flips and other complex techniques,” according to the official Olympic website.
International breaking competitions began in the 1990s, 2018 Youth Olympic Games The Olympics will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the 2024 Olympics, the breaking competition will take place at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. August 9th and 10thThe first day will see the female breakers compete, while the second day will see the male breakers compete.
Each day, 16 competitors will compete in a round-robin format. Four groups of four breakers will compete in one-minute matches, known as “battles,” with the top two from each group advancing to the quarterfinals. The winners will then advance to the semifinals, where a best-of-three finals will determine the winner. Who will take home the medal?Each day of competition will last approximately five hours, with a host facilitating and a DJ playing random music.
Each battle will be scored by a panel of judges, with decisions based on five categories: musicality, vocabulary, originality, technique and execution.
Other new Summer Olympic sports debuting at the Tokyo Olympics
During the 2020 Olympics, Summer 2021Four new sports are debuting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. skateboard, surfing, Sport climbing Karate has also been added to the Tokyo Olympic schedule.
Karate will not be included in the 2024 Olympics, but skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing will. The skateboarding and sport climbing events will take place in Paris, and surfing will take place in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
Two sports were featured at the Tokyo Olympics: softball and baseball. Both were previously Olympic sports but were dropped in 2008. Softball and baseball will not feature in the 2024 Olympics.
Do you know what new sports will debut in 2028?
The 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles and will include two new sports and four returning sports that were not included in the Paris Games.
The two sports making their debut are flag football and squash. Like breaking, squash was included in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, but flag football has never before been an Olympic sport.
Lacrosse was first played in the Olympic Games in 1904 and 1908 but has not featured as an Olympic sport since. The version planned for 2028 will have six players on each team. World Lacrosse calls the version to be played in 2028 “an incredibly fast-paced, compact sport that is a fusion of field and box lacrosse.”
Cricket will also be returning to the Olympics, having only been featured at one previous Olympic Games – in Paris in 1900. Baseball and softball, which have not been featured since the Tokyo 2021 Games, will also return to Los Angeles.
