In an effort to bring the Olympics to a wider and younger audience, breaking is the latest sport to make its debut at Paris 2024. But how will it work as a scored sport? Sport Management lecturer Mikhail Batuev gives his take.
B-girl Vicky performs during the National Breakdance Competition held at the National Stadium Surulere in Lagos on Jan 15, 2024. Breakdancing, or breaking, is making its debut as an Olympic sport this year and Nigeria's competitors have been vying to bring their own distinctive style to the games. . Breaking is probably better known to most of us as breakdancing.
While the idea of testing each other in format-free “cyphers” has always been fundamental to breakers, the importance and the number of organised breaking competitions has steadily grown with commercialisation and codification of the activity. Undoubtedly, the inclusion of breaking fits well with that overall strategy - there has been nothing similar to breaking on the programme in terms of its creativity, affordability and its urban nature. It is also fair to say though that breaking made it to Paris 2024 thanks to the insistence of the host country.
There are a lot of odd new terms to learn if you have never watched a breaking contest, such as “turtle freeze”, “six-steps” and “coin drop”. However, the format of Olympic competition is very straightforward: 16 B-boys and 16 B-girls will battle it out head-to-head under the lights of the Place de la Concorde.
As in any creative sport, there are inevitable questions about scoring in breaking. Indeed, there is always going to be a substantial degree of subjectivity, but not drastically more than in established Olympic sports like gymnastics, synchronised swimming or figure skating. It is based on six criteria to decide the winner of each battle: Creativity, personality, technique, variety, performativity and musicality - this means connecting to a musical track that is not known in advance.
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