{"id":794274,"date":"2019-03-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breakdancing-sport-climbing-surfing-skateboarding-inch-closer-to-2024-olympic-status\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"breakdancing-sport-climbing-surfing-skateboarding-inch-closer-to-2024-olympic-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breakdancing-sport-climbing-surfing-skateboarding-inch-closer-to-2024-olympic-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakdancing, sport climbing, surfing, skateboarding inch closer to 2024 Olympic status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.6672760511883\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-363679-256\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Switzerland_IOC_45319-b36b1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Switzerland_IOC_45319-b36b1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Laurent Gillieron \/ AP | Keystone | International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany arrives at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Switzerland_IOC_45319-b36b1.jpg\" alt=\"International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany arrives at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany arrives at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.<\/strong><br \/>Laurent Gillieron \/ AP | Keystone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Switzerland_IOC_45319-b36b1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Switzerland_IOC_45319-b36b1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Laurent Gillieron \/ AP | Keystone | International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany speaks at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Switzerland_IOC_45319-b36b1-1.jpg\" alt=\"International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany speaks at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany speaks at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.<\/strong><br \/>Laurent Gillieron \/ AP | Keystone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/breakdancing-sport-climbing-surfing-skateboarding-inch-closer-to-2024-olympic-status\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/breakdancing-sport-climbing-surfing-skateboarding-inch-closer-to-2024-olympic-status\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Breakdancing and three other sports have made the next move toward becoming medal events at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The International Olympic Committee\u2019s executive board on Wednesday recommended adding breakdancing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing to the Paris program when the full membership meets in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A final decision must be made by the board in December 2020 after further monitoring of the four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Also Wednesday, the IOC board agreed to continue helping North and South Korean athletes and officials work together despite diplomatic setbacks between the neighboring governments in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Joint Korean teams are being prepared in four sports to try to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and a co-hosting bid for the 2032 Summer Games is a possible aim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With those 2032 Olympics and the 2030 Winter Games in mind, a panel has been asked to look at ways of making an often expensive and politically unpopular candidate process \u201cmore flexible and more targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe IOC may approach a city or a region and tell them, \u2018Listen, isn\u2019t it not a time for you now?\u2019\u201d IOC President Thomas Bach said at a news conference after the second of three days of board meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Making the Olympic Games more affordable and responsive has been a key aim for Bach. He praised the four likely additions to the Paris medal program as \u201cmore gender balanced, more youthful and more urban\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThese four sports also offer the opportunity to connect with the young generation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though breakdancing would be new in the Summer Games, the other three are already confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">All four sports will be assessed for how they are managed, and the integrity of competitions and judging, before being finalized for Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The IOC hosted a meeting of Korean government and sports officials in February, one year after the neighbors fielded a combined women\u2019s ice hockey team at the Pyeongchang Olympics hosted south of the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Last Friday, North Korea withdrew staff from a shared liaison office in its border town of Kaesong. Some staff returned to work on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe will try to continue our efforts there with a view to helping and assisting the athletes and the (national Olympic committees),\u201d Bach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Combined Korean teams \u2014 in women\u2019s basketball, women\u2019s field hockey, mixed team judo, and men\u2019s and women\u2019s rowing \u2014 are preparing to enter qualification this year to compete in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If a Korean bid emerges for the 2032 Olympics, it could compete with candidates from Australia, India, Indonesia and Russia which have expressed early interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Asked if plans to simplify Olympic bidding could see the IOC approach a favored city, Bach said it was \u201cnot our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe Olympic Games are too big and too important that you could have an arrangement with a city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The new panel of five IOC members, chaired by John Coates of Australia, aims to suggest ideas for the candidate process by the June 24-26 meeting of the full membership in Lausanne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/breakdancing-sport-climbing-surfing-skateboarding-inch-closer-to-2024-olympic-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany arrives at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.Laurent Gillieron \/ AP | Keystone International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany speaks at the opening of the first day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 04:18:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}