One-of-a-kind Budapest sports fest started: the world focuses on us – PHOTOS
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The Olympic Fest of Street Sports kicked off today in Budapest’s famous Ludovika Campus. The event is part of the Olympic Qualifier Series for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games and an opportunity for everybody else to try themselves out in BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing or enjoy the positive vibes of the unique fest blended with music, art, and culture.
Downtown Budapest hosts international sports fest, urban festival
The Paris Olympic Games will include four extra sports. They are breaking, surfing, skateboarding, and sport climbing. Athletes in these sports can acquire a spot in the Olympics by performing well on two qualifiers. One was organised in Shanghai in May. The second part is in Budapest: it started today and will last until Sunday.
This is the first time such a competition is held. However, it is important for the 464 athletes competing since 150 can win an Olympic quota for Paris.
Balázs Fürjes, co-chairman of the Budapest Local Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series and a Hungarian member of the International Olympic Committee, told InfoStart that the Qualifier Series is accompanied by an urban festival. Thus, those interested can try all the sports regardless of age, skill level, or gender.
Mr Fürjes told to InfoRádió’s Aréna that their aim was to organise a respected sports event and a music and family festival to help all age groups find suitable programmes.
He said some of the new sports would remain in the programme of the future Olympic games and one would be sport climbing.
Four Hungarian athletes at the Olympic Qualifiers
Four Hungarian athletes will take part in the qualifiers. Zoltán Kempf (Kempf Zozó) will compete in BMX freestyle, Csenge Szarvák (B-Girl Csenge) and Lobontiu Menotti Noris (Noris by Nature) will try to get a spot on the Paris Olympics in breaking. Finally, Nimród Sebestyén Tusnády will try to do the same in sport climbing.
