I think breakdance should not be an olympic sport. amirite?

This is how I find out breakdance is an Olympic sport?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Have you seen ribbon dancing?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yes. awful. Can't wait until they add "rhythmic skipping" and "riding a trike with streamers on the handlebars".

by chaz03 1 month ago

Yes. You have to control smoothly something that's out of your body.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Combine the two. Olympic Capoeira.

by Commercial_Point 1 month ago

I would 100% tune in to watch Brazilian's dance beat down everyone else every four years.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Wait, so something meant to draw viewers cares about what's popular? 😲

by Early_Town3273 1 month ago

Olympic games were not made initially to draw viewers. Were made to test the ability and strength of athletes around the world. Besides breakdance it's not that popular anymore. It's not 2005.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Breakdance wasn't popular in 2005.

by Vokeefe 1 month ago

Everything on tv is there to draw viewers

by Early_Town3273 1 month ago

I would argue that breakdancing is also tests of strengths and ability. Sure it's not throwing a javelin, but it does requires a level of dexterity, agility, strength, and concentration that could be on par with some athletic abilities. I also have a question how do you feel about artistic gymnastics?

by Santamayert 1 month ago

Is that not the same with breakdancing? One failed spin or flip you fail. The average person can't break dance so it could be just as hard.

by Santamayert 1 month ago

You can save those, besides most people don't know how breakdancing works anyway and they won't notice if someone fell or they kept "dancing".

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Then you have never seen good breakdancing, also they would have rules and standards as to what judges want you are not the person who scores . Also if you are good enough even in artistic gymnastics you can make a fail look like part of the act.

by Santamayert 1 month ago

And break dance isn't?

by Dalenicolas 1 month ago

You mean something that's thousands upon thousands of years old has changed a bit? What's your source that breakdance isn't that popular anymore?

by francesglover 1 month ago

did you know breakdance test ability and strength?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Enlighten me how something that requires balance, strength and ability like breakdance it's better than something that requires balance, strength and ability like karate. Tell me why breakdance it's an olympic sport, and karate isn't.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

uh no. the olympics was made to promote peace and friendship through sports. so is bboying a sport? yes. do people go to war over it? no. so it fits the olympics. if you want the best tests of athletics, you would do away with all the country nonsense and just watch the world championships of a sport. the olympics is not that.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

If they are doing all the spins and flips, I think it should be. I think the same with pole dancing. They are peak athletes. But if they are just dancing with no indication of physical ability, why?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

There are a bunch of sports which shouldn't be there, my particular gripe is with 'branch' sports like 3x3 basketball The very best athletes in the world play the 'full' version of such sports, why should the Olympic games essentially reward players for failing to make it in the big leagues?

by Interesting_Year8144 1 month ago

Yeah just like they have shooting with an air gun as an sport but not ipsc They definitly should add ipsc Atleast you move and don‘t stand in the same place Can you even call that a sport

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Target shooting has generally been called a sport for some time now.

by Objective-Total 1 month ago

Well ipsc is superior And you shoot there at targets too I hate normal target shooting even more because a solid portion of them (atleast in Germany I think) think of as for Barbarians for running and shooting when we just don‘t wanna be bored You can‘t tell me shooting 3 shoots at 1 target in 5 minutes is fun

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Cool

by Objective-Total 1 month ago

You need to say what IPSC is if you want anyone here to care.

by Sea-Expert-7604 1 month ago

I agree with that. Everyone can be good at pulling a trigger while standing still.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Oh buddy no they really can't be.

by Specialist_Box_9889 1 month ago

If Ice Dancing is an Olympic event, why not breakdancing?

by Some_Shift 1 month ago

I didn't know breakdancing made it to the Olympics! Hell yeah!

by boganmyrtle 1 month ago

Then maybe gymnastics shouldn't be an Olympic sport either?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

gymansts need a lot of physical ability and Its an offshoot of track and field tho

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Why

by Anonymous 1 month ago

How much money do you think breakdancing will bring in??

by Small-Claim 1 month ago

fencing is also stupid

by Anonymous 1 month ago

It's only an exhibition sport for Paris 2024, it won't be at LA 2028. Karate was exhibition for Tokyo 2020(1)

by noemi18 1 month ago

If they only care about money and popularity why are you complaining about a sport being taken out that is more popular than one that's still in?

by alfonzo49 1 month ago

They took a popular sport out in favour of something less popular thinking it would atract young people to the olympics. They were wrong.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Think that again. Most of MMA moves are from karate, krav maga, and judo. "Yoga tier exercise"? Whatever, keep thinking that.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think the Olympics has supported the LGTBQ community enough, there's no need to keep karate.

by Vokeefe 1 month ago