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2024 Paris Olympics introduces new sport for the first time ever this weekend

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Updated 10:34 9 Aug 2024 GMT+1Published 08:42 9 Aug 2024 GMT+1

2024 Paris Olympics introduces new sport for the first time ever this weekend

There will be 32 sports played at the 2024 Paris Olympics which includes one for the very first time

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

Featured Image Credit: Kevin Voigt / Maja Hitij / Getty Images

Topics: Extreme Sports, Olympics, Sport, US News, Weird, World News

Tom Earnshaw
Tom Earnshaw

Tom joined LADbible Group in 2024, currently working as SEO Lead across all brands including LADbible, UNILAD, SPORTbible, Tyla, UNILAD Tech, and GAMINGbible. He moved to the company from Reach plc where he enjoyed spells as a content editor and senior reporter for one of the country's most-read local news brands, LancsLive. When he's not in work, Tom spends his adult life as a suffering Manchester United supporter after a childhood filled with trebles and Premier League titles. You can't have it all forever, I suppose.

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The 2024 Paris Olympics have been millions tune in across the world as thousands of athletes compete for the illustrious top prize of a gold medal.

With 329 medal events across the two and a half week multi-sport event, we're talking around 1,000 medals given out in total across the gold, silver and bronze categories.

At the heart of the showcase will be events like the marathon which has stood the test of time, taking place every four years since the very first modern Olympic Games, taking place almost 130 years ago in 1896.

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But there's no time like the present to make a change. And that includes introducing new disciplines for the first time ever.

Three new sports debuted in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. And for the Paris Games, we'll welcome another one.

What new sport is coming to the 2024 Paris Olympics?

Brand new for the 2024 Games is a discipline known as Breaking.

To me and you, we might refer to it as breakdancing.

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Established in the early 1980s in the New York City suburb of The Bronx, breaking combines dancing with rhythmic backing.

Fast forward 40 years, it has become a legitimate competitive sport where people 'battle' against each other for top prizes.

A breakdancing event in the build up to the Paris Olympics. (Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)
A breakdancing event in the build up to the Paris Olympics. (Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)

The International Olympic Committee decided breaking would be included in the 2024 Paris Olympics following a proposal by the World DanceSport Federation.

Its Olympic debut was during the 2018 Youth Games, though, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Format and how to watch

The breaking competition will be held over two days on Friday and Saturday, 9 and 10 August. These are the penultimate days of the tournament which comes to an end on the Sunday.

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Athletes will face off on the iconic Place de la Concorde, one of Paris' major public squares that has been transformed for the competition.

A total of 32 people will take part in the dancing, split equally between male and female contestants in face-to-face battles.

They will be tasked with improvising their dances to the beat of the DJ's music in a bid to score higher than their opponent. Each battle will be a best-of-three rounds, with each round lasting one minute.

Dominika Banevic is favourite to win the women's competition. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Dominika Banevic is favourite to win the women's competition. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

Who is taking part and favourite to win?

France will have the joint most contestants with four. This is alongside Japan and the USA.

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China will have three; the same as the Netherlands and Ukraine.

According to NBC, the favourite for the men's competition is American Victor Montalvo from Orlando.

For the women, Lithuania's Dominika Banevic - aged just 17 - is tipped for gold having won the 2023 world title.

Enjoy it while you can, though, as it looks like it is a one and done event for breaking.

Despite the 2028 Games taking place in the USA across the city of Los Angeles, the discipline has not been included in the official Olympic programme.

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