Break dance is a type of street dance, with English names such as Breaking, Breakdance, b-boying, etc. There is also a Chinese version that translates it as "floor dance".
China News Service, December 8th. According to the IOC website, on the 7th local time, the IOC made a number of decisions regarding the 2024 Paris Olympics. Compared with the Tokyo Olympics, the Paris Olympics will be reduced in scale. While breaking dancing and other four events were added to the competition, the four sub-items of weightlifting were removed.
The International Olympic Committee has decided to reduce the number of events in the Paris Olympic Games to 329 and the overall number of athletes to 10,500.
The International Olympic Committee hopes to further reduce the cost and complexity of hosting the Olympic Games in order to adapt to the situation after the epidemic.
Data map: Rio Olympic Games women's weightlifting competition.
Photo by Chinanews reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Among them, the weightlifting event has the most "attenuation", and 4 small events will be removed from the Paris Olympic Games.
By then, the weightlifting event will have 5 sub-events for men and women, with a quota of 120 athletes. Compared with the Tokyo Olympics, there will be fewer 76 athletes. The specific levels of items to be removed will be finalized by the International Lifting Federation in the fourth quarter of 2021.
At the same time, break dancing, rock climbing, skateboarding and surfing are listed as official events of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The President of the International Olympic Committee Bach emphasized that the setting of Olympic events gives priority to sports that are particularly popular among young people, and takes into account the urbanization of sports.
Data map: break dancers.
Among them, the break dance project is undoubtedly the most concerned by Chinese netizens.
Breakdancing was born in North America in the 1970s. Various movements test the dancer's athletic ability and dancing skills. It has high technical content and strong appreciation.
Break dance is a small item of street dance, which belongs to sports dance in the design of sports events.
Similar to figure skating, breakdancing is also a scoring item in sports competitions, and the referees comprehensively evaluate the results through various aspects such as the athlete's artistic performance and the difficulty of the action.
Break dance has different forms such as single fighting dance, mixed fighting dance, team fighting dance, etc. The contestants show their personal skills in the dynamic music.
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