Paris Olympics to include breakdancing competition

Breakdancing has been officially added to the Olympic event schedule and is due to enter competition for the first time at the Paris 2024 games. Strongly linked with hip-hop culture, it is practised by an estimated one million participants worldwide.

While breakers want to make sure that its cultural roots are not forgotten, squash players – whose sport continues to be excluded from the Olympics – have branded the inclusion of breakdancing as "making a mockery of what the Olympics is".