Sports briefly: Breakdancing now Olympic sport

Breakdancing became an official Olympic sport Monday.

The International Olympic Committee's pursuit of urban events to lure a younger audience saw street dance battles added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.

Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.

Those three sports will make their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games, which were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic by one year to open on July 23, 2021.

Alongside the additions, the IOC made subtractions: The slate of 329 medal events in Paris is 10 fewer than in Tokyo, including four lost from weightlifting, and the athlete quota in 2024 of 10,500 is around 600 less than next year.

Two sports with troubled governing bodies — boxing and weightlifting — saw the biggest cuts to the number of athletes they can have in Paris.

Weightlifting should have 120 athletes in Paris, which is less than half of its total at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. The sport could be dropped entirely due to its historic doping problems and IOC concerns over the pace and depth of reform at the International Weightlifting Federation.

The Rockets had their second workout of training camp Monday and afterward the new coach addressed the absence of the disgruntled star who reportedly wants to be traded.

"As far as timetable, there's no timetable as far as I know," Silas told reporters when asked when Harden would arrive. "And it is a setback. You want your best player to be here."

• Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts says an unidentified player was among the three people connected to the team who tested positive for the coronavirus. The Blazers are set to tip off a four-game preseason schedule Friday with a game against the Kings.

The team plans to hold its first practice of the preseason on Tuesday.

• Warriors star Draymond Green and No. 2 overall draft pick James Wiseman are sidelined with the coronavirus.

Soccer: Toronto FC attacking midfielder Alejandro Pozuelo was named Major League Soccer's 2020 Most Valuable Player. Pozuelo had nine goals and 10 assists during the coronavirus-shortened regular season, even while the Reds played part of the year in Connecticut because of travel restrictions in Canada.