Breakdancing in Olympics shows IOC's desperation
Before we get back to bashing the suits, let us try playing devil's advocate. You can argue that breakdancing is no battier than rhythmic gymnastics – the one in which teenage girls dance around the arena twirling a ribbon behind them. Many Olympic sports look peculiar on close inspection – like familiar words rolled around the tongue for too long. The 100m dash is logical enough. But why does the steeplechase involve a 2ft-deep trough of water? And while the pole-vault presumably derives from the ancient Dutch skill of fierljeppen – in which you cross a dyke or ditch by pivoting on a...
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