Breakdance and skateboarding is sent further in the process to become a discipline for the olympic games in Paris in 2024.
This was decided by The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday.
Here was sportsklatring and surfing are also directed against a possible approval as a OLYMPIC discipline.
To december 2020 for the IOC to decide which sports are finally coming to the OLYMPICS in Paris.
the IOC president, Thomas Bach, praised the four new sports and called them “more kønsbalanceret, young and urban”.
– These four sports also provides an opportunity to get in touch with the young generation, says Thomas Bach.
Anakin is the only one of the four sports that are completely new in the summer OLYMPICS, under the auspices. There must already compete for medals in the other three to the OLYMPICS in Tokyo in 2020.
All four sports will in the future be judged on how the tournaments in each sport is being held and on the tournaments integrity, before final determination of whether they are to be at the OLYMPICS in Paris.
in addition to the new sports decided the IOC’s board of directors to help north and south Korean athletes to work together despite political turmoil between the two countries ‘ governments.
More total Korean team is in the process of trying to qualify for the OLYMPICS in Tokyo in 2020 in four different sports.
in Addition, there has been talk that North and south Korea will bid to organise the OLYMPICS in 2032.
