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Break Dancing has been added as an official sport for the 2024 Games in Paris.

Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing added as well.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id...games-2024

Is there any truth to the rumor that Muir, after eliminating wrestling and volleyball, is adding a men's break dancing team?

New men's team?
Highly unlikely
For schools struggling with Title IX compliance a women's breaking team seems inevitable, and would have more TV appeal than the bowling teams.  

Seriously though, I think blaming this on the AD and finances ignores the other issue that Varsity Blues uncovered, the potential for vastly easier admissions.

It was, and still is, rather easy for families with exceptional wealth to get their kids to dabble in expensive sports (fencing, rowing, sailing, golf, etc.) as that is a much easier way to get into highly selective schools than any academic path.  Varsity Blues fabricated sports accomplishments and tossed in bribes, but the underlying problem of lenient admission decisions for athletes at selective schools remains.

I know Stanford has some of the best athletes in those expensive sports, but it is rather clear now that they often compete against schools that have rosters stuffed with quite a number of kids without a lot of ability from big donor families.

For a school only accepting 4% of its applicants that type of the sports-exclusively-for-the-elite backdoor becomes a problem, especially if 12+% of its total slots are dedicated to athletics. 

The financials made it easier to make this call in 2020, but I think the university was eager to reduce the number of athletes, especially in expensive sports primarily enjoyed by wealthy families.

I happen to agree that Stanford dumped those sports for "social justice" reasons and not due to money or Title IX or anything else.  That's why Bernard continually says "those sports aren't coming back even if they can generate sufficient funding."  
If that is the case, then Stanford should come correct about it - why try to hide it?

[teejers1]

Break Dancing has been added as an official sport for the 2024 Games in Paris.

Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing added as well.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id...games-2024

Is there any truth to the rumor that Muir, after eliminating wrestling and volleyball, is adding a men's break dancing team?

New men's team?
Highly unlikely
For schools struggling with Title IX compliance a women's breaking team seems inevitable, and would have more TV appeal than the bowling teams.  

Seriously though, I think blaming this on the AD and finances ignores the other issue that Varsity Blues uncovered, the potential for vastly easier admissions.

It was, and still is, rather easy for families with exceptional wealth to get their kids to dabble in expensive sports (fencing, rowing, sailing, golf, etc.) as that is a much easier way to get into highly selective schools than any academic path.  Varsity Blues fabricated sports accomplishments and tossed in bribes, but the underlying problem of lenient admission decisions for athletes at selective schools remains.

I know Stanford has some of the best athletes in those expensive sports, but it is rather clear now that they often compete against schools that have rosters stuffed with quite a number of kids without a lot of ability from big donor families.

For a school only accepting 4% of its applicants that type of the sports-exclusively-for-the-elite backdoor becomes a problem, especially if 12+% of its total slots are dedicated to athletics. 

The financials made it easier to make this call in 2020, but I think the university was eager to reduce the number of athletes, especially in expensive sports primarily enjoyed by wealthy families.

I happen to agree that Stanford dumped those sports for "social justice" reasons and not due to money or Title IX or anything else.  That's why Bernard continually says "those sports aren't coming back even if they can generate sufficient funding."  
If that is the case, then Stanford should come correct about it - why try to hide it?