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Paul MILLAR

Magic dance: Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard wins the first – and maybe last – Olympic gold in breaking

Canada's Philip Kim, known as Phil Wizard, competes during the men’s breaking gold medal battle at La Concorde Urban Park at the Paris Games on August 10, 2024. © AP

From our Olympics correspondent in Paris – This year's Games have marked the Olympic debut of breaking, with hip-hop fans flocking to the pop-up Urban Park at Paris's Place de la Concorde to watch the world's best b-boys and b-girls show off their moves. But with the Los Angeles Olympics organisers having decided to leave breaking off the agenda in 2028, the event's future is looking uncertain. 

Do you know the name of the event that modern Olympic Games founder Pierre de Coubertin won his only gold medal in? Surely the man behind the modern pentathlon – an event combining fencing, swimming, show-jumping, cross-country running and shooting that gives you a rather worrying glimpse into the high-octane lifestyle expected of a 20th-century gentleman – must himself have been something of an all-rounder. 

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