This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

We're currently just two days away from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

And if you couldn't already tell from the TV commercials the branded

soda cans and the Emily in Paris Sponcon the Olympics are once again everywhere.

So in the Olympic spirit we are bringing you four stories

about the games in all their international theatrical glory starting with one

from 99% invisible supervvising Producer, Christopher Johnson.

Hello, Christopher Johnson. What do you have for me today?

Hello, Roman Mars.

So this summer, for the first time ever,

there'll be Olympic level breakdancing.

It's officially called breaking and it's the first ever so-called dance sport

to happen in summer Olympics history.

Wow, I did not know that.

That's very exciting.

I agree.

I support all things breakdancing,

especially because I'm a hip-hop head.

But breaking is not like running or swimming or throwing

stuff. It's not your typical Olympic sport and this got me thinking as unusual as Olympic breakdancing might seem

it cannot be the oddest event to ever be in the games. And I was right. Okay, so tell me more.

Okay, so first of all, I need you to know that many of the weirdest Olympic sports in history came into being way

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