Culture, Movement, and Olympic Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Breaking at the Paris 2024 Olympics

guess of a sport that you saw at the Olympics in Paris that you will not see at the Olympics in LA come 2028 Breaking not making the cut now before we go ahead and point any fingers This was well before Australia’s Rachel gun pulled up to the scene with her PhD in cultural movement Insane amount of confidence and her one dream one shot of making it into Juilliard now I’m not gonna lie breaking did present some questionable moments. Like why are you wearing a do-rag? Why are you wearing a do-rag? But it did in many ways illustrate the power of dance and the ways in which you can use movement to get out important messaging We also got to see the talent of Vancouver’s Phil wizard who took home the inaugural gold Nonetheless back in October the IOC had announced that it had approved five sports that were proposed by the LA 28 organizing committee Those sports include baseball softball cricket and lacrosse which will all be making their return to the Olympic Games While flag football and squash will both be making their Olympic debut While breaking was introduced to the Paris Games in order to attract a younger audience They say that these sports are more in line with the American culture So gone for now, but not forever breaking could make a return in the 2032 Olympics when they’re hosted in Australia Which is absolutely hilarious