Before we get back to bashing the suits, let us try playing devil s advocate. You can argue that breakdancing is no battier than rhythmic gymnastics – the one in which teenage girls dance around the arena twirling a ribbon behind them. Many Olympic sports look peculiar on close inspection – like familiar words rolled around the tongue for too long. The 100m dash is logical enough. But why does the steeplechase involve a 2ft-deep trough of water? And while the pole-vault presumably derives from the ancient Dutch skill of fierljeppen – in which you cross a dyke or ditch by pivoting on a large stick – it is anyone s guess who came up with the triple jump, and what they were smoking.