Throughout the years, cheerleading has made its way around the world tremendously and has grown very popular. From the United States, Finland, and Colombia to Australia. When most people think of cheerleading, they think of the sidelines, crowd leading, and cheering a team to victory. Now cheerleading can be divided into two categories: competitive cheer and spirit squad. In 2021 the IOC (International Olympic Committee) officially recognized cheerleading as a sport but has yet to make its way to the Olympics. The IOC didn’t recognize the spirit squad as a sport, but competitive cheerleading as one. Two minutes and thirty seconds of Game Day routine to compete against one another, in the same category, nationwide. To some people, that is still not considered a sport because they ain’t fighting …show more content…
Unlike many sports, cheerleading is a team sport. You must have a team to form a routine. Everyone must work together, too. Having this kind of teamwork in the Olympics for younger boys and girls to look up to would help make them a team player because they would have a sport to look up to like that. Said in the article Cheer Theory, “for a sport to make it and be successful in the Olympics it all boils down to universality, gender equality, environmental sustainability, integrity, fairness, popularity, host country interest, complexity, and athlete safety.” There are many programs and organizations in the process of trying to get cheerleading a part of the Olympics. The USPOC is in partnership with the United States Olympics. Their mission is to get more interest in sports and to get people to watch the United States Olympics when they host them. The USPOC is working on getting cheerleading in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. As mentioned before, cheerleading is a team sport, if you're missing one person it could affect the whole