I don't really see it as an Olympic event and should be part of the x games. They are losing the Olympic values in my opinion and are desperate to keep a wilting audience. The Olympics is not what it used to be and is a shame they are cocking it up.  

Why not? as far as I know the Olympics should cover any sports in existence with enough athletes and fans am I right? 

I don't know what are the rules or requirements to include a particular sport in the Olympics but I guess skateboarding fans would love to see it included. I had my own skateboard when I was a kid but what I enjoyed the most was playing the Tony Hawk games on the PlayStation hahahaha. I haven't keep informed about this sports in the past few years but I guess it must have new stars and new fans.

How dare you talk about something else than MMA 😁

I won't go check, but does ice skating is in the winter Olympics? So, Skateboard is like ice skate on wheels? 
At the same time, I did skateboard, I did rollerblade, and we were mainly smoking weed. So unless they can smoke weed, I would say it doesn't make sense to have it in the olympics.

Should have included the SkateHive tag, you would have had some good additional curation!

That being said, I think your argument against skateboard is basically saying that the Olympics, should just accept it's becoming irrelevant, and fade away.  Now I know that's not literally what you are suggesting, but that is what happens if things don't adapt.  However the original Olympics had 2 naked greased up dudes wrestle each other in the sand, and I'm sure someone had the same argument when they replaced that.  That's because clearly the Olympics doesn't have set sports set in stone, because it's about athleticism!   

I do agree about the judging being a major point of contention, but name a sport where judging based on style hasn't lead to controversy at one time or another.  The key is a balance between finding judges that care for the sport, finding ways to keep money out of the decision making, and at least trying to make it as fair as possible.  But clearly the comparison to things like figure skating, show a large similarity in finding the balance between trick difficulty, and landing successfully, which is much harder when your not attached to the board like figure skaters to their skates. 

Personally I think downhill skateboarding would be much better suited for the olympics than trick skateboarding, as it's much closer to existing Olympic sports like downhill skiing. No need for judges, just a high speed camera for the finish line!  The skill it takes to use nothing but gravity, momentum, aerodynamics, while trying to take the better race line, and trying not to crash into each other, appeals to a much broader audience than something where very few people can even name any of the tricks.  Plus can you imagine how awesome the Olympic leather race suits, and full face helmets would look!!!

Another point i'd like to bring up, is the stress that so many kids are put through, mostly to satisfy parents of said kids.  At least with skateboarding it's something that average day kids choose to do themselves, rather than being pressured into a sport that they would otherwise have no interest in.  

So maybe if the Olympics are to remain traditional, they should scale back in size along with the waning interest in these older sports.  They already cause a huge disturbance with the facilities they build, destructive land use, the displacement of the homeless in the area, and later with the buildings mostly becoming abandoned after.  

So in conclusion of my way too long comment.  I think change is inevitable, but the problem is that I think this was a choice made more based on profitability in the relevancy of skateboarding, not the athleticism of it.  That being said, I honestly cannot find an argument against skating that wouldn't easily apply the same to figure skating under the right light, so as long as the judging is done ok, then it is what it is.  So you watch figure skating, I watch skating, and we just accept that we're not all going to like every other sport. 

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Yep, fuck kayaking