admin Four new sports have been added into the category of additional sports in the 2024 Paris Olympic games. These sports include skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking which is a professional form of the break dancing.
It is for the very first time that such sports have been given recognition in the senior international arena as formal games. This decision has come from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) where the event program and athlete quotas were being finalised, these four sports were also inculcated.
While skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing will also be witnessed in the Tokyo Olympics scheduled in the next year, breaking will officially enter into the senior sports arena in the year 2024. Prior to this, breaking was seen at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in the year 2018 where it proved to be a huge success and was greeted by the people as a welcome change.
The urban games for the Paris 2024 Olympics will be held at the iconic square Place de la Concorde which is at the very heart of Paris and links to the Champs-Elysees to the Tuileries Garden where the competition shall take place.
Surfing on the other hand will be at the Teahupo’s site which is in Tahiti in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Because of the prevailing pandemic, another important decision has come from IOC, that the complexity as well as the cost of the Paris Olympics 2024 will be kept at the lowest possible juncture.
The number of athletes and events has also been reduced by 592 and 10 respectively in comparison to the Tokyo Olympics. But there will be a growth of 4 in the arena for mixed events in the Paris Olympics.
The IOC president remarked that the pattern of the games and cost and complexity is being worked on in a manner that it suits the post pandemic era that is to come.
The games scheduled in Tokyo for 2021 will be the first gender-equal Olympics where there is an overall of 48.8 percent of female participation. These figures will see another increase in the Paris Olympics where an exact same figure will be reached for both men and women for the first time in the history of Olympics.
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