The International Gymnastics Federation wants to recognise parkour as a new discipline, with a view to Olympic inclusion in 2024. But the parkour community is opposing the FIG’s efforts

We saw similar criticism with the introduction of skateboarding and surfing at the 2020 Olympics. Both of these sports have grown communities that embrace personal expression and counterculture over pure technical skills.

Plenty of athletes find the inclusion of these sports in the Olympics to be completely contrary to the spirit of the sports. An LA Times article summarizes:

More than 5,500 people identifying themselves as skateboarders from around the world have signed an online petition asking the International Olympic Committee not to add their sport to the Games.

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"Skateboarding is not a 'sport' and we do not want skateboarding exploited and transformed to fit into the Olympic program," the online petition states. "We feel that Olympic involvement will change the face of skateboarding and its individuality and freedoms forever."

And from an Outside article:

And young surfers don’t want to listen to Bob Costas narrate John John Florence’s top turns. They want to watch a webisode, scroll through heats on demand (if the waves are firing), and then go surfing.

There are even some parallels with the difficult involvement of community leaders in skateboarding and parkour. The Guardian article reports that members of the skateboarding commission left in part due to "no involvement of the international parkour community" in the commission. From a Vice article:

Getting skating into the Olympics, however, was never Ream's mission. He felt that would happen whether he cooperated or not. But the IOC requires every Olympic sport to have an international federation, and the fear was that an organization with little to no experience with skateboarding or its culture, rules, or people would wind up in charge. So Ream and other icons of skate formed the ISF in 2004. In describing his overall role regarding the Games, Ream said he was "very active in protecting skateboarding in its relationship with the Olympics."

Having no personal involvement in these sports or communities, I think parkour is obviously a great fit as a sub-discipline of gymnastics. But I worry about the effect of the FIG on future competitive parkour. The 2006 scoring changes in artistic gymnastics represented a huge turning point in the sport. They encourage significantly trickier skills at the cost of artistic integrity. I hope that parkour can keep well enough to its roots to avoid similar changes.