You might like watching the typical basketball and volleyball in the Olympics but now you can watch BREAKDANCING! The summer olympics will have Breakdancing, Surfing, Sport Climbing, and Skateboarding.
Breakdancing will be debuting in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The athletes in Breaking will be judged on the judges point of view on how they think the athletes performed. The sport will be including moves such as the windmill, the 6-step and freezes. The game will be scored on technique, vocabulary, execution, musicality, and originality.
The second new sport will be skateboarding. Skateboarding first debuted in the Tokyo 2020 olympics. The game will be in this year’s Olympics now too. The best skateboarders across the world will be competing for a medal. There will be mens and womens competitions.
The next new competition will be surfing! Surfing will not be taking place in Paris, but on an island that is over 9,000 miles away! It will take place on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. To get gold the athlete must be the highest scorer in their heat.
The fourth and final new sport will be…..Sport Climbing! Even though Sport Climbing has been in previous olympics, it is debuting this year with a brand new format! The sport is attracting many young athletes, 39 percent of climbers are under 18 years old! There will be 3 different formats for the competition, bouldering, speed and lead. In all 3 they have a big mix of height, speed and success.
The Olympics will still have all the other sports you are so familiar with, this year will be featuring a few unique ones!
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