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    Parkour Resists 'Hostile Takeover' By International Gymnastics

    An art as much as it is a sport, parkour's urban ethic is one of bold, practiced risk-taking. Now its adherents say it is having to fight against encroachment by powerful interests.
    by Laurel Wamsley Dec 21, 2018 1 minute
    Many in the parkour community are resisting attempts by the International Gymnastics Federation to bring the sport under its umbrella. Here, Johan Tonnoir practices parkour in Paris in May.

    Since its beginnings in the 1980s in France, parkour has been sporty – but not exactly Olympic sporty.

    Parkour and its cousin freerunning involve scaling urban obstacles and Its adherents, called traceurs and traceuses, bound railings, climb walls, and leap across

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