http://www.bikebiz.com//news/read/uci-wants-to-get-skateboarding-into-the-olympics
greedy and unnecessary organisation tries to get its fingers in another pie
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another sport about to be ruined
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Presumably the inclusion of a skateboarding discipline would be at the expense of a cycling one. We've already seen some of the longer track event go, it would be a shame to see more going.
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But unlike cycling, skateboarding will never capitulate, the core will always stick up their middle finger to crap like this. Hopefully.
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Skateboarding was sold out years ago to highly televised events such as the X games and the like.
Whilst now considered mainstream, the vast majority of skaters don't give a **** and will continue doing their own thing, just like they have through all the peaks and troughs of it popularity...
I wouldn't worry too much.Posted 1 year ago # -
What next? Space Hoppers in the Olympics?
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Crazy. Next thing you'll be telling me that there is an Olympic sport where you lie down head first on your nan's tea tray, which is on a downhill ice track, and that a British lass will take up the sport and the next minute she's got a gold and she's a national heroine who all can aspire to!
Oh hang on......
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greedy and unnecessary organisation tries to get its fingers in another pie
I know there are plenty of 'skatewear' companies ripping folk off with cheap shoddy trendy crap, but that's a bit strong...
If there is something popular, someone, somewhere will try to make money out of it. I mean, I learned recently that you can pay hundreds of pounds for a bit of plywood with some castors on it. Jeeze.
Just as well cycling isn't a popular sport, eh, or we'd all be paying vastly overinflated prices for hyped up tat...
Posted 1 year ago #
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