Renovación de los Juegos Olímpicos y apropiación cultural del parkour Apoyos y resistencias

Abstract

Parkour emerged in French suburbs as a development of a group of individuals. As from 2006, it reached a massive audience through online video platforms, leading to multiple local appropriations. Parkour’s community ethics include several values, shared (or not) by its members, such as: non-competition, utility of the movements and creativity. We will be calling both, the community, and the whole of knowledge, ethics and arts shared by it, parkour’s culture, aware of its divergences and diffuse boundaries. The International Olympic Committee, committed to engage younger audiences, upgraded the Olympics 2020 Agenda, by adding action or extreme sports to its programe. In 2017, the International Gymnastics Federation announced the development of a new competitive discipline based on parkour, to be added to the Olympic Games programe, called FIG Parkour. That development was immediately categorized as misappropriation by parkour groups, organizations and federations. We will relate these allegations with the idea of cultural appropriation and summarize some supports and resistances concerning the development of FIG Parkour within parkour culture and gymnastics.