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Three new sports - DanceSport, karate and sport climbing - were added to the 28 already on the programme of the third edition of the Youth Olympic Games in early December 2016. Of the three, climbing was already showcased in the "Sports Lab" of the second edition held in Nanjing, CHN, in 2014. The YOG audiences should therefore be familiar with  Bouldering, Lead and Speed. But we can safely assume that not everybody knows about events like B-Boying, B-Girling or Mixed Team Battle.

That's where the IOC Communications Department comes in: at just over 20 months out from the dates of the 2018 YOG in Buenos Aires, ARG, it published the first explanatory article about Breaking as a discipline of DanceSport on Friday 20 January.

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