Paris 2024 Olympics will start on twenty sixth July and finish at eleventh August. (AFP)
The upcoming sporting fest in Paris will see two new competitions make their debut together with breaking or break dance, and kayak cross in canoeing.
The 2024 Paris Olympics is about to start later this month on July 26. The earlier version of the Summer season Olympics in Tokyo had witnessed the introduction of three new occasions together with skateboarding, sport climbing and browsing.
The upcoming sporting fest in Paris will see two new competitions make their debut together with breaking or break dance, and kayak cross in canoeing.
Breaking shall be part of 4 non-traditional sports activities that shall be contested in France. With the introduction of those sports activities, the organisers shall be aiming to attraction to youthful followers.
Right here’s every little thing you might want to know concerning the new sports activities occasions.
Debuting Olympic Sports activities occasions
Breaking and Kayak Cross in Canoeing are two occasions that may debut within the 2024 Olympic Video games.
Breaking
Breaking or break dance shall be making its debut on the 2024 Paris Olympics. The woman’s competitors shall be held on August 9 whereas the boys will compete on the next day, August 10. The official venue for breaking shall be La Concorde, a brief transformation of the enduring Place de la Concorde. It would additionally host different occasions together with skateboarding, biking BMX freestyle and three×3 basketball. Breaking may have two occasions for 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Ladies. Each of those teams will face off in solo battles whereas being judged on their dance strikes.
Kayak Cross in Canoeing
Canoeing on the Olympics has historically concerned solely two types of competitors together with dash and slalom. The summer time Olympics 2024 will now introduce a brand new fashion of competitors, kayak cross, within the slalom class. The occasion will see the taking part athletes racing over water by means of obstacles whereas competing towards time.
Returning Olympic Sports activities occasions
Skateboarding, sport climbing and browsing made their Olympic Video games debut in Tokyo 2020 and are additionally set to characteristic in Paris.
Skateboarding
The skateboarding will see the participation of 88 female and male athletes throughout 4 occasions. The road prelims and finals shall be hosted on July 27 and 28 whereas the park prelims will happen on August 6 and seven. All of the mentioned occasions shall be held on a ‘street-like’ course which can embrace stairs, handrails and benches. The taking part athletes shall be judged based mostly on velocity, issue and vary of strikes.
Sport climbing
The boys’s and girls’s sport climbing occasions will start on August 5 and final till August 10. The official venue for the game climbing occasions shall be Le Bourget, constructed particularly for the Paris Olympics. Sport climbing shall be carried out throughout three important codecs together with bouldering, velocity and lead. Athletes may have excessive partitions with out ropes within the bouldering occasion.
Browsing
The winners of the browsing occasions within the Olympic Video games are decided in six rounds. They’re judged on a scale of 0.1 to 10.00. Browsing occasions on the Olympics won’t final greater than 4 days.
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