GENEVA (AP) — Global organizers of street-running known as parkour have set the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) a deadline to end attempts to control their sport and give it Olympic status.
Parkour Earth asked FIG President Morinari Watanabe in an open letter on Thursday for an “urgent meeting” by Sept. 15 to formalize its right to govern.
The six-nation group seeks FIG’s “commitment to take no further steps to implement your purported encroachment.”
It’s the latest dispute involving Olympic sports bodies for control of popular youth-oriented events.
Parkour combines running, climbing and acrobatics across an obstacle course of urban architecture.