NOW SQUASH IS COOLER THAN BREAKDANCING

Explaining the expected inclusion of breakdancing as an Olympic sport in paris in 2024, the organisers said there were more than a million B-Boys and B-girls in France. So it’s lightsaber duelling next, then. Why not? The French Fencing Federation secretary general, Serge aubailly, last week acknowledged fighting Star Wars style — with what appear to be metrelong fluorescent tubes — was a sport. ‘Young people today don’t do any sport and only exercise with their thumbs,’ said aubailly. ‘We are trying to create a bond between our discipline and modern technologies.’ indeed — but why stop there? Duelling in hot air balloons was possible p in France at one time, as was duelling by throwing billiard balls at each other. if the Olympics is just to be a home for local quirks, why stop at boring breakdancing? and what self-respecting B-Boy would want the endorsement of those corrupt old scrotes at the iOC anyway? This is meant to be counter-cultural — any genuine B-Boy hates the term breakdancing, which is a mainstream media corruption of a movement that began on the streets of new York, through the music of DJ Kool Herc. and now, they’ve got Thomas Bach and the iOC crew involved. incredible. Still, it has it downsides. From this point, squash is officially way cooler than breakdancing.