Breakdancing is becoming an Olympic sport set to make its debut in Paris in 2024 with 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls competing in 1-on-1 battles. Now I understand why the WDSF (World DanceSport Fed) has reacted with such positivity and delight to this news but me, no, I'm just not convinced. Yes I am curmudgeonly. Yes I am getting old. Yes I am a man. But none of those are reasons, which is why I'm struggling with this.

For me the Olympics has always and fundamentally been about athletics, track and field. What happens inside the stadium being the ultimate enduring Olympic tradition. The Games, in my opinion, needs to lose events not gain them. Already the glory of gold has been bastardised by including sports that don't rate the OG has their own pinnacle of achievement. Any sport that doesn't consider the Olympics to be its ultimate prize (i.e. tennis,  golf, football) should never be there in the first place.

The reason, according  to the IOC, to now add breakdancing, surfing, skateboarding etc is "to hopefully attract a younger audience to the Olympics". This, again, is where the over-thinking marketing twat dept have got it completely wrong. If this is really that important to the Olympic ideal then why not immediately add the "30 second attention span ultimate millennial challenge".

The exclusivity of the OG is exactly what helps maintain its traditions, mystique and  enduring place as the Mount Everest of sporting achievement. So why devalue what centuries have taken to establish? It's like wearing whites at Wimbledon or banning cellphones at the Masters. I'm sure the younger audience despise the idea of going to Augusta and being told to leave their device behind.

So bloody what. The Masters keeps going. Eventually the millennials will learn to appreciate why those rules HAVE to stay in place. The Olympics doesn't need to attract ANY demographic to itself. It needs to stay true to its ideals because that is actually, long term, what will forever keep it relevant. The Games don't need to find young people, the young people need to find the Games.