Sure it’s incredibly fun to watch and requires heaps of hard work and talent but I seriously don’t see how it is an Olympic sport. I’ve seen people say ‘what’s the difference between swinging around on a beam and breakdancing’ . That is ridiculous.
I think adding more events like this just devalues the speciality of other Olympic Games and Olympians.
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If there was break dancing at the Olympics, why weren’t there any breakdances competing?
Lmao
Seriously, I saw this video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CiMJyugVb9k
And I thought it was an Onion video satire.
Then I searched on google “is break dancing an Olympic sport”
And this thread was the first result.
Liberals loved it sooo 🤷
this is like the 10th post about it we get it 😭
‘what’s the difference between swinging around on a beam and breakdancing’
That’s a pretty good explanation Honestly. If it was up to me skating, gymnastics, artistic swimming, handball, canoeing wouldn’t be in the olympics.
But you know what? That’s my ignorance because I don’t know enough about those sports. Acknowledge that you’re also speaking out of ignorance and we can all move forward having learned more.
I really don’t know
Icl I thought dancing in the olympics was pathetic as well but then I watched the break dancing olympics, it genuinely looks harder than “people swinging around a beam”, or training a horse so it can do a dance, that’s pure talent right there, modern twist to an Olympics in modern times. Just as much of a sport as gymnastics.
The host city gets to choose experimental sports for the Olympics, and this time, Paris chose to include breakdancing. It won’t be back for the LA games since they plan to include baseball, softball, flag football, squash, and cricket.
If that’s the case, I hope one day pole dancing is chosen as an experimental sport. The strength needed for some of those tricks and stamina needed to combo those tricks are insane. It’s similar in some ways to gymnastics when chatting to my gymnast mate.
When you think about it’s pretty weird those sports you listed don’t already exist as olympic sports