Breakdancing has been proposed for inclusion in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, organizers have announced. It is among four sports that organizers will propose to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as surfing, climbing and skateboarding, which will all debut at Tokyo 2020.
巴黎奥组委已向国际奥委会提议在2024年巴黎奥运会上增加霹雳舞、滑板、攀岩以及冲浪四个大项，其中滑板、攀岩以及冲浪三个项目将在2020年东京奥运会上首次亮相。

霹雳舞（breakdancing）起源于上世纪60年代末、70年代初，最初在非裔和拉丁裔美国年轻人当中兴起，有时也简称为breaking、b-boying或b-girling（跳霹雳舞的人就可以简称为breaker、b-boy或b-girl），属于街舞（street dance）的一种。霹雳舞的动作多为即兴（improvisational），主要强调能量、动作、创意，还有一点点危险的感觉。这里的break指DJ通过混音制造出的连续的舞曲节拍（a continuous dancing beat）。

2018年，霹雳舞作为新增项目首次在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯青奥会（Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires）亮相。

The young participants competed in head-to-head "battles" under nicknames, with Russia's b-boy Bumblebee taking home the men's gold medal, while Japan's Ramu Kawai won the girls' title.
年轻选手们都有自己的昵称，在赛场上捉对“厮杀”，最终俄罗斯选手Bumblebee和日本选手Ramu Kawai分获男女金牌。

对于巴黎奥组委的提议，国际奥委会表示：

"We are pleased to see that Paris 2024's proposal for new sports to the Olympic programme is very much in line with the reforms of Olympic Agenda 2020, which is striving to make the Olympic programme gender-balanced, more youth-focused and more urban."
我们很高兴看到巴黎2024年奥运会提议增加的新项目与《奥林匹克2020议程》提出的改革方向高度一致，那就是让奥运会项目更加注重性别平衡、更年轻化、更都市化。

巴黎奥组委主席托尼·埃斯坦盖（Tony Estanguet）表示：

Breakdancing is a fantastic opportunity to be really in line with the story that Paris 2024 wants to tell. We want those Games in connection with creativity, connected with the youth, more urban, more out of the stadiums.
霹雳舞为我们提供了很好的契机，也与巴黎2024年奥运会希望呈现的内容不谋而合。我们希望举办一届独具创新、更接近年轻群体、更有都市气息、更能走向场外的奥运会。

国际奥委会全会于2014年12月通过了《奥林匹克2020议程》（Olympic Agenda 2020），围绕可持续发展、提高公信力和吸引青少年三大主题（with regard to sustainability, credibility and youth）提出了40条改革建议，其中包括相对灵活地设置奥运会比赛项目、东道主可提议增项（allow the OCOGs to make a proposal for the inclusion of one or more additional events on the Olympic programme for that edition of the Olympic Games）。