OPINION: This may confirm that I'm an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy but I'm amazed and disappointed to learn that breakdancing is to be recognised as an Olympic sport (pending ratification) at the 2024 Paris Games.
If this happens it means that someone, who twirls round in the middle of the floor like an uncle who has over-imbibed at his niece's wedding, will earn a gold medal that has the equivalent merit to that awarded to the winner of the gruelling marathon or the fiercely competitive 100 metre sprint.
And this decision to include breakdancing on the agenda has been made at a time when the organisers have once again decided to leave out squash – a much worthier sport – from the Olympic programme.
The argument in favour of including breakdancing – it will join skateboarding on the programme – is that it will make the Olympics attractive to the younger generation.
Well, if teenager interest is to be the criteria for future Games programmes, how long before we have medals awarded for the contestant with the untidiest room, or the competitor who can stay in bed the longest?
"We're getting to a critical time in the teen sleeping marathon here at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The favourite, Shane Soporific of Great Britain, is still deeply asleep after 26 hours 24 minutes but his fierce rival Heinrich Hypnotic of Germany looks almost comatose and could well steal the gold medal.
"The bronze has already gone to the Russian competitor, Leonid Lifeless, who was unlucky to be startled awake by the starting gun for the women's 400m, after a creditable 22 hours 16 minutes.
"An appeal by his coach for the Games organisers to order a re-sleep was rejected on the grounds that firing didn't wake the two other remaining competitors."
Given the IOC's recent proclivity to introduce minority "sports" into the Games programme I suspect we should brace ourselves for the inclusion of bog snorkelling. After all, there is already a World Bog Snorkelling Championships being held annually in a peat bog in Wales.
Or, how about a wife-carrying race? The sport is already popular in Finland and in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Why am I not surprised that the two latter locations are Trump strongholds?
Indeed, to consolidate his popularity perhaps we might see The Donald lurching along the track at the LA Olympics with Melania on his back, although his bone spurs might prove a bit of an impediment.
Cheese rolling enthusiasts are probably by now be salivating over the IOC's enthusiasm for the unusual.
What a TV spectacle it would be to see the world's premier cheese rollers lined up beneath the Hollywood sign on Mt Lee ready to chase their rounds of Double Gloucester to glory in 2028.
But perhaps I'm being too hard on the IOC for including breakdancing as a Games option. Competitors clearly have to be extremely flexible and fit and in breakdancing's defence there's certainly been some stranger sports included in the past.
For instance, at the 1900 Paris Olympics there was a swimming obstacle race held in the River Seine. Entrants had to climb over a pole, scramble over a row of boats and then swim under another row of boats.
Unsurprisingly, the event sank without trace and didn't resurface at subsequent Olympics.
In fact, the 1900 Games were particularly bizarre. Apart from the swimming obstacle race, there was a croquet competition in which France took all the medals. Not surprising as all 10 competitors were French.
The event wasn't exactly a magnet for crowds. Just one spectator ticket was sold.
To top it all, there was also a horse long jump, which made its first and only appearance on an Olympic programme.
Obviously, it was a leap too far even for the IOC.