Lesson: Breakdancing Gets Olympic Green Light for Paris 2024

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Breakdancing, or “breaking,” secures its place at the 2024 Paris Olympics alongside skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing. Explore our English learning resource, where you can listen and read about these dynamic additions to the Olympic lineup. Stay updated on sports culture while enhancing language skills through engaging content and questions.

AFP 2022

Breakdancing Gets Olympic Green Light for Paris 2024

Breakdancing Gets Olympic Green Light for Paris 2024

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Breakdancing Gets Olympic Green Light for Paris 2024

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Breakdancing was one of four new sports along with skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing to get the Olympic green light on Monday for inclusion at the 2024 Paris Games.

The four sports were included as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board met to confirm the Paris 2024 programme. Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing have already been added to the programme for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which will take place in 2021 after being postponed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Breakdancing, which grew up alongside hip hop in the South Bronx of New York in the 1970s and is officially known in sports terms as "breaking", appeared at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, in the form of head-to-head "battles".

Vocabulary:

Programme - plan of activities

postponed - delayed

grew up - developed

green light - give permission that it is okay to do something

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Which of these are not sports that were new in the Tokyo Olympics

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Breakdancing was created _____

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Which of these statements are NOT true.

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Breakdancing Gets Olympic Green Light for Paris 2024

Breakdancing was one of four new sports along with , surfing and sport climbing to get the Olympic on Monday for inclusion at the 2024 Paris Games.

The four sports were included as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board met to confirm the Paris 2024 . Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing have already been added to the programme for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which will take place in 2021 after being by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Breakdancing, which alongside hip hop in the South Bronx of New York in the 1970s and is officially known in sports terms as "breaking", appeared at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, in the form of "battles"

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