Breaking is will join the games in Paris. But how did the dance style make it into the Olympics? NPR's Andrew Mambo speaks to ESPN's Alyssa Roenigk about how the IOC and host countries add sports.
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But how exactly does a new sport get added to the Olympics? Alyssa Roenigk, a senior writer at ESPN who's in Paris covering her 10th Olympics, explains the process.Alyssa Roenigk: And then you also have events. So, say, for skateboarding, you have park and street. Those are events. So you could maybe start pulling one in and substituting.
So in 2020, we saw sport climbing, surfing, skateboarding, karate, and then the return of baseball and softball. And then at the next Olympics here in Paris, the Paris organizing committee was then able to"yes" or"no" to each of those and put forth their own. So they accepted sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding, and then they put forth breaking, which is making its Olympic debut now.The host countries have a lot of power in that.
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