| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Breakdancing to become an Olympic sport in 2024? Yes. |
| 2021-07-28 |
| [NPR] Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Raphael Xavier, professional breakdancer and professor of hip-hop dance at Princeton, about break dancing becoming an Olympic sport. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Forget ice skating. Breakdancing is the coolest new Olympic sport. The International Olympic Committee has officially announced it will add breakdancing to the Games under the name breaking. Breaking, of course, is a style of hip-hop dance that includes footwork and athletic moves like back or head spins. The dancers, often called b-boys or b-girls, will be able to compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. And here to talk about it is professional hip-hop dancer and breaker Raphael Xavier. Welcome to the program. |
| Posted by:rjschwarz |
| #9 WAsn't it Galligar who stated that "Sex should be an Olympic Event so we can win some!" Of course considering some of the practices being condoned these days... might e a bad idea. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-07-28 13:41 |
| #8 #6 Two Entrants for 2028 |
| Posted by: Snomons Crutle3682 2021-07-28 13:06 |
| #7 From the NPR interview: you are now a professor at Princeton teaching break dancing classes and the history of hip-hop. This is not the Princeton I used to know. |
| Posted by: Creretch Lumumba7973 2021-07-28 12:29 |
| #6 Followed in 2028 by twerking. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2021-07-28 09:38 |
| #5 THIS is break dancing: |
| Posted by: badanov 2021-07-28 08:43 |
| #4 Not the Bee? How... wha...?! WHAT?!  |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-07-28 08:31 |
| #3 agreed silentbrick |
| Posted by: Chris 2021-07-28 00:58 |
| #2 The Russians and East Europeans will be all over this - it's a circus act. The other one that comes to mind is "big air snowboarding," where you do spasmodic tricks as the mountain falls away rapidly underneath you. |
| Posted by: Fairbanks 2021-07-28 00:55 |
| #1 IOC "Well, that dead shark isn't going to bugger itself now is it?" F*** the Olympics. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-07-28 00:34 |