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2006 ITALY WINTER Olympic in SKI HALF PIPE?

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x_dragon
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how r u think about this??

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Jul 27 2005 10:14PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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i dont want it in


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Jul 27 2005 10:16PM
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Soups
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Fuck skiing in the olympics. it'll ruin the sport

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Jul 27 2005 10:17PM
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dweezileast
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hell no, i dont want our sport to be judged by fucking bean counters, taht tally up useless points not relating to style whatsoever

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Jul 27 2005 10:18PM
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SmoKinSkier
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I dont really understand the last couple things if we dont like it in italy why would we enjoy it in other cities same olympic committe!! N e way on a side note have they even picked the 2014 location yet?

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Jul 27 2005 10:22PM
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klimp
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is it going to be in it?


Jul 27 2005 10:33PM
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Luc.
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yeh winter.steve but come on...im 50% with u and 50% against you....im with u ebascue i want more money into the industry and the sport thati crave, but im against u becasue i dont want skinig to become all corpoate and all about comps and money and all that jazz...i just want it to stay as a sport where little kids can strap on skis and goof around and not have to worry about some prick comming up and saying he sucks or is no good...this is already happening in the sport and is ruining it for the next generation of freeskiers...we need to bring skiing back to its roots of having fun and chilling with your friends on the hill...not all serious like..."holy shit that kid has wack style" i even have found myself caught up in that crap in the resent past but i have changed for the better to allow myself to really be with skiing, so skiing can be with me...i just think we should stop being so down on each other thats all...

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Jul 27 2005 10:36PM
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Dilla
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I agree



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Jul 27 2005 10:42PM
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Soups
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winter.steve its not that I dont want to have more money or recognition in the sport, but look at what it did to snowboarding. it just took away from the appeal and fun. everytime i go down a mountain im skiing past asians, and little kids, and everyone on snowboards---people who arent meant to snowboard are there. Its ruining the mountain and its not fun to sit in a park behind 20 people who just rented a board and think they can hit a 30 foot table. Its just not cool. I dont wanna go down a mountain and sit behind 20 more people with twin tips. If they were good---fine, but you know its gonna be people doing the "cool thing to do"

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Jul 27 2005 10:47PM
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Literature
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^ I agree. It will become "cool". We have WSI and the Xgames, and the Xgames are already sucking. The UOC is way too static a body to deal with the ever changing flow of skiing. I say nay.

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Jul 27 2005 10:56PM
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fake01
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snowboarding hasnt changed, the only thing is that the riders get more recognition and paid a lot better for what they do even if they arent winning the X. I mean look at the snowboard mags, there are like 7-8 different mags, that means a lot more snowboarders get to have their photos published even if their names arent jp walker. This means that the talent pool is much bigger and gives the chance to a lot more snowboarders to make a living. All of this is in part thanks to the HUGE coverage that the olympics, x-games or whatever comp gives to the world outside of the snowboard community. After all, would you rather see a baseball player make millions while david crichton makes not even 1/8 of that, but he is actually risking his life and abviously doing something much more sick! think about it.

Jul 27 2005 11:13PM
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paprika
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It can bring both good and bad as all the people before me have said but one point I 100% agree with is the one freezeskier97 made. I remeber when snowboarding wasnt huge and the people that did it were doing it right and thats whats going on with skiing, the people that are out there doing it are going at a good pace and doing it right. I absolutely hate shooting down a blue at the end of the day and having to nearly kill myself stopping after being suprised to find 30 asians sitting in the middle of a run right under a hill that hides them right before you get to them. There was this case here in BC a few years back when this asian got on a snowboard for the first time, saw it at the X-games and the olympics, thought it was easy, went to the superpipe, yes superpipe, and ended up breaking is back and now hes in a wheelchair. Thats one thing I never want skiing to become, the centre of attention in a bad case of misuse of equipment just cause someone idiot, asian or whatever, saw it at the x-games or even bigger at the olympics.

Jul 27 2005 11:24PM
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justinm
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that happens in every sport, there will always be idots, noone can change that

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Jul 27 2005 11:29PM
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paprika
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Im not saying there arent idiots in skiing now but do you find groups of skiers sitting in the middle of runs doing nothing?? I never ever have and hopefully never ever will cause if I ever find, and hopefully I never do, a group of rich asians or anyone for that matter who dont know what theyre doing sitting in the middle of a run with like k2s, lines, armadas, and dynastars ill feel that the sport is going downhill, and going down fast.

Jul 27 2005 11:41PM
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x_dragon
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steve? who is him?

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Jul 28 2005 12:38AM
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sherpasrock
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i think it might be good for skiing to be in the olympics, if it doesnt change things. but if we have to sacrafice our style and the soul of freesking, and we all end up (like freeskier97 said) stuck behind people because they think its now "the cool" thing to do, screw the olympics. i mean, sure more money into the industry is great and all, but where i ski (in the midwest) the park is already 1/2 full of little kids who ski/board there because they want to look cool and people who wouldnt give a penny to see the sports progress. all they want is to look cool infront of their little friends. and if the olympics will increase the amount of people going into the park just to sit around and be there - to be there - not really supporting the sport at heart, id rather not have freesking involved in the olympics.

and to whoever said snowboarding hasnt changed - the sport itself hasnt, maybe it has progressed some because of all the media and magnitude of the olympics, but how many kids do u see nowadays in the park, just sitting there, doing nothing except getting in peoples way, pissing off people who want to be there to progress themeselves and sometimes, making boarders look bad because of the idiotic attitudes some people take (not that skiing doesnt have those people as well...) anyway, yeah..

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Jul 28 2005 12:51AM
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murphski
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X-games? U.S. Open? the judging sucked ass. none of the judges took style into account. Except for gangiers slope run in winter X. but thats it.

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Jul 28 2005 12:53AM
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the judges at x were riders. i know rinfret was one of them i dont know about the others htough

Jul 28 2005 12:58AM
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VANULAR
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It would be dope if skiing halfpipe was in the olympics. we just have to push it in the right direction

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Jul 28 2005 1:06AM
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daniel_insam
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I think it would be good to have halfpipe skiing in the Olympics , that would be a way to make the newschool more popular

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Jul 28 2005 6:37AM
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dweezileast
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those are pefect examples. even the venue is ruining it. its making freeskiing appeal to the yuppies

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Jul 28 2005 6:49AM
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SkierJulie
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half pipe in the olympics would be one of the best things that could happen to the sport. yes, it would publicize the sport. yes, it would bring in more money for the sport. the freeskiing heads of state would just need to make sure the sport keeps getting pushed in the right direction and that the olympic committee doesn't fuck it up like they did to moguls for a while.

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Jul 28 2005 6:55AM
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mattyb.
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is it actullay happening in italy


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Jul 28 2005 7:00AM
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alev
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of course not, we would have known if it was happening for the olympics two years ago, but the olympics are this winter...so i highly doubt it will happen this year

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Jul 28 2005 7:39AM
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dweezileast
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at least theres moguls

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Jul 28 2005 7:44AM
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t-man152
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yo think about it. Tanner on a wheeties box he can have a quote. like "Wheeties for when you get the munchies"



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Jul 28 2005 7:55AM
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Aasert
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winter.steve has a point. think about it. Everyone whine about not having a real newschool mag, if we get into the olympics, we might get more then 1.
It seems like you guys thinks that newschoolers will begin to use tightsuits because we join the olympics.. look at snowboarding, It hasnt changed much

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Jul 28 2005 8:00AM
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Hahahahhahahahaha.....................wow. I want T$ on a Wheaties box.

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Jul 28 2005 8:45AM
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Badfish2
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I like the fact that freeskiing is just, in reality, a relatively small community. Go to a lot of the smaller -non resort hills- and guys(and girls) with twintips will understand eachother almost immediately.. i don't want it to get to rich or watered down, what's wrong with a modest community?

Jul 28 2005 8:50AM
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plus wheaties supports black atheletes. Tiger Woods, Mohamed Ali, and soon Tanner Hall

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Jul 28 2005 9:09AM
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offtrail
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do you kiddies actualy hear what you are saying. "i was all stoked and then i had to ski through all these asians who should't be there....."

are you fucking kidding me. so what you are saying is that skiing doesn't need more people doing it. it shouldn't be mainstream like snowboarding, or skating or something. that is the stupidest thing i have heard.

...imagine....
if there are all these people on the hill, who are skiing, and they are doing it only cause they saw it in the olympics, more power to them and our sport. lets say they see T in whistler goin big on some armadas. then those tourists see his skis and go buy a pair. they are helping out the movement. so all these new people go out and buy skis and clothing and whatever, from those companies who are pushing skiing right now, and then those companies make more money, and more sick products that all of you can then buy, and since if supply and demand go up price goes down, now you will all be paying lower prices for the hot shit you buy now

what is wrong with that.



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Jul 28 2005 11:03AM
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3rdCoastskier
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the sport needs to grow. This will allow more exposure, and mabey more money for ski areas to throw around. And it is not like the community can become any worse than the haters here.

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Jul 28 2005 11:11AM
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lanks
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yeah...but concluding that the price of armadas will drop is quite the leap of faith. i would argue that even if our industry explodes, due to exposure from an olympic event, and many more units are moved, armada would keep the price of skis where theyre at now. it cheapens a brand's image if they drop prices for no reason, and of all companies, armada wouldnt stand for that.

and secondly, if all you want from the hypothetical situation of skiing making it as an olympic event is for the price of gear to drop...well then dude, thats flat out greed.

im not choosing sides here, just pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.


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Jul 28 2005 11:13AM
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i would be seriously suprised if there was half pipe in the olympics as soon as 2006 . If there is i hope C Crew is all there and they kick the shit outta bode or something that would be some funny shit




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Jul 28 2005 11:13AM
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3rdCoastskier
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^^^that exactly what the olympics need, You douche

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Jul 28 2005 11:16AM
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montageskier
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If skiing is in the olympics then it will be just as glorified as snoboarding. thats a bad thing becaus eyou get people who are just on the band wagon.




Jul 28 2005 11:18AM
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offtrail
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yeah that was just an added point. and yeah prices might not fluctuate that much, but who knows what the rate on inflation will be from now till then any way. but on the money front if more people are skiing or even snowboarding, that means that there are more tickets sold, and if a resort sells more tix, the prices might stop rising all the time.

however....

my point is that if more people are skiing. then that is a good thing. even if they suck. the key is that the industry needs to take a path in which skiing stays "cool". whatever that is... or in the same idea as other x games sports that are mainstream are still looked at differently than say football. the athletes are still considered core or whatever, and that is the way it should stay. mainstream core...the trend





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Jul 28 2005 11:19AM
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i hear ya

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Jul 28 2005 11:22AM
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4frntSkier
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i dont want it in

Jul 28 2005 11:58AM
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Marg
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i totally think it should happen but change judging format less FIS

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Jul 28 2005 1:31PM
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Marg
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corey makes a huge point i think pipe skiing should go off lets dew this especially for 2010 Whistler you know

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Jul 28 2005 1:35PM
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shradical
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if skiing is to have a big decent future then it needs to be exposed to the rest of the world. snowboarding blew up because of the olympics. when i try to explain what types of skiing we do people get confused. i hear it all the time, "oh so you do aerials?", "oh so you do moguls?". NO!! those two sports are tainting skiing as it is. we need to have halfpipe in the olympics so peoples eyes can get opened. so people can see that we're right along side of snowboarding, doing what they do. it would bring a lot of good things into the sport. yes, it might bring some bad things in as well, but in the overall, skiing would benefit greatly.

Jul 28 2005 1:38PM
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lalalalaura
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if we really want skiing to be a non-lame alternative to snowboarding, there needs to be more exposure. if this is the only way to get that exposure, then it might as well happen.skiing needs to establish itself in the public's eye, otherwise its growth will be stunted at least a little bit.

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Jul 28 2005 1:39PM
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SmoKinSkier
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Im going to use offtrail as my reference here! Along with other production and skiing compaines!! They work their ass off each year to provide us with sick gear and insane footage. With more exposure these people who have been dedicatedto the movement long b4 olympic halfpipe stand to gain the most. Which is completely deserved on their part.

All it would mean is more mags and possibly longer and mor einsane movies with a bigger budget. Yes their will be more so called posers and gapers but thats inevitable. IT is already happening at a slow rate why not make it a BOOM and gain sumthin from it in the present instead of waiting a few more years!!

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Jul 28 2005 2:09PM
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no. absolutely not. now fuck off

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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM
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what also made the snowboarding blow up in the last olympics in th us atleast is that americans went 1 2 and 3 which brought alote more atention towards it

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Jul 28 2005 2:25PM
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freeskier1316
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I'm split because if we get into the olympics then the industry gets a huge ass boost it will be the cool thing to do more people more money right? but on the other hand I like the idea of staying small and not letting other people in which i very closed minded but most of the people who i know that ski are chill and there's a small group of us and i like the fact that they aren't huge roaming groups of skiers but i could be wrong just my take on things


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Jul 28 2005 2:59PM
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pag
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I don't want to not at all fuck the FIS
I mean skateboarding has gone mainstream and it's not in summer olympics why would we get all this shit for this only reason. it won't be a good growth so I say fuck that shit.

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Jul 28 2005 4:12PM
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my bet is halfpipe exibition


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Jul 28 2005 5:15PM
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Girays_Brother
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fuck that shit i dont wanna see our sport being judged by a bunch of fucking rich people that hold up 1s 2s 3s 4s 5s 6s 7s 8s 9s and 10s, fuck that shit, we created our sport outta nothing we can sure as hell keep it going without getting the olympics in it

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Jul 28 2005 5:21PM
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i wanted to post to be on the second page


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