This year’s Games saw breaking make its Olympic debut. Hip-hop fans flocked to the Urban Park pop-up park on Place de la Concorde in Paris to watch the world’s best B-boys and B-girls show off their moves. But after organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics decided to remove breaking from the 2028 agenda, the event’s future looks uncertain.

Do you know the name of the discipline in which Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, won his only gold medal? The man who developed the modern pentathlon – a discipline that combines fencing, swimming, showjumping, cross-country running and shooting and offers a rather disturbing insight into the fast-paced lifestyle expected of a 20th-century gentleman – must have been something of an all-rounder himself.

Like most trivia, this question is a little tricky – the event no longer exists. De Coubertin won the gold medal for literature in 1912 after submitting his poem “Ode to Sport” under a false name. It was the first year that the Games broadened their scope to include artistic competitions alongside sporting ones, a feature that would be maintained for decades until 1948. The decision marked the character of the Games as something changeable, not something artificial, static – or even fixed in time.

The B-Boys have no idea what song they will be dancing to, and are not allowed to do the same move more than once during the entire competition. They also have a three-minute break to show the judges what they can do.

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