breaking will not be on the program for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics

News to turn the heads of breakers. Barely added to the Olympic program for Paris 2024, as an additional sport, breaking will not appear on the program for the Los Angeles 2028 Games, the LA2028 organizing committee announced on Monday October 9. Like karate, integrated into the Tokyo Games in 2021 but excluded for the following Games, breaking will therefore have no Olympic visibility beyond Paris-2024 and its “battles” scheduled on the site of the Place de la Concorde.

The organizing committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games detailed in a press release the five additional sports that it is proposing to the International Olympic Committee with a view to their potential inclusion in the Olympic program in five years: breaking is not included not, unlike baseball/softball, cricket, squash, flag football – or non-contact American football – and lacrosse, a team sport derived from Native American cultures, popular mainly in North America.

These sports “are relevant, innovative and community-driven, played in backyards, schoolyards, community centers, stadiums and parks across the United States and around the world“, underlined in a press release the president of LA2028, Casey Wasserman. The disciplines proposed by the organizers of Los Angeles-2028 must still be validated by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) during its next session, next week in Bombay, India.