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Simon Hayhoe, Associate Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability & Inclusion, University of Exeter

Break dancing used to pride itself on inclusivity – so why is it in the Olympic Games but not the Paralympics?

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Break dancing has at last made it to the Olympic Games. This acceptance by the most exclusive of sporting institutions has been a long time in the making. Break dance promoters first mooted its inclusion in the early 1980s.

Break dance is an artform based on martial arts and dance that originated in the working and underclass culture of New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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