J. Hayes of Brooklyn Barbarosa, a New York-based longboarding blog, pondered this very idea in the middle of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Hayes explained how a sport becomes Olympic and offered the longboarding community suggestions on how to spread the word about longboarding (on an international level).
While the International Olympic Committee doesn’t recognize skateboarding or longboarding, it does recognize the International Roller Sports Federation. And while skateboarding is part of the X Games, longboarding is not.
The topic of expanding longboarding to a larger audience and making it an Olympic sport has long been a heated debate on Silverfish, with strong arguments for and against this proposal.
I’ll leave the floor to you. Do you believe that skateboarding and/or longboarding should be allowed in the Olympics, or are the X Games and longboard races enough? Sound off below!
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