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Should ski pipe/slope be an olympic sport?

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84891jnf92048
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with the addition of snowboard pipe a few years ago, i think it is only fair that ski would make it into the olympics as well, but i am not sure that is where i want skiing to go. olympic team issue tall tees, however, would be pretty dope.
May 15 2010 8:22AM
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Brenone
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May 15 2010 8:45AM
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nickyp
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That looks like beating, rather than flogging
May 15 2010 9:20AM
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Elmo.
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that would b pretty cool and i think it should 2 cuz really who likes curling... people would watch an action sport over that any day. and us team issue tall tees would b pretty sick i think lol
May 15 2010 9:26AM
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DERS.
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is that even a question? hell yes it should be
May 15 2010 9:28AM
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FREEskiLINE
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curly is intense. like legit if you actually start watching it and know whats going on you could possibly break a sweat
May 15 2010 10:16AM
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tDrops
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obviously it should be in the olympics that would be so dope but it would just be like 1 person from most of the countries in Europe and like 10 from the US
May 15 2010 11:52AM
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The-Pencil-Man
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How can you guys also not think big mountain skiing should go in the olympics? That would be really sick
May 15 2010 12:43PM
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Schlop
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during the olympics, whenever I would tell (distant) family members I ski, they would say, "You mean snowboard right? That like Shaun White guy??" so it might be good to get freeskiings name out there a bit, but on the other hand I don't want it to get really popular among the people we would rather have stay out of the sport
May 15 2010 12:51PM
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Randy_Quench
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i think this threads name should change to "WHY should ski pipe/slope be an olympic sport?"
because believe it or not this is a skiing thread, so why the hell would anyone say
"aw hell no skiing is lame and should most certainly not be part of the olympics!"
May 15 2010 2:09PM
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PEJibber31
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A lot of skiers dont think it should be in the Olympics. There's already enough complaints about the judges at the X Games and odds are the judges at the olympics would be even worse. There's no way they could get a multi-national team of judges. That being said, if snowboarding get's a pipe event skiing ought to as well. It's a different atmosphere though, there wouldn't be tall t's and hyphy sponsors and shit. It would be Tommy Hilfinger and Under Armor (the moguls teams setups were fuckin embarassing).
May 15 2010 2:37PM
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Alex_G
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why not its one of the fastest growing sports and once they are in the olympics communities will be stoked to make it more widely available for the public like putting in public snowflex rail setups and shit just like they did for skateparks. now you can skate literally everywhere in california at least where I am.
May 15 2010 2:41PM
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Scrambles
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I hope they only get half-pipe. If they got big-air it would turn into even more of a huckfest then it already is, with zero recognition of style.
May 15 2010 4:02PM
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STEEZZZZ
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ya, but almost worse is the fact that arials is in the olympics, because that does not represent skiing whatsoever. I'm sure it takes ridiculous skill and a lost of nuts, but who, other than the olympic people actually do that?
May 15 2010 4:07PM
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tride
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Whatever, for what it is, it's sick. Who cares if it represents skiing or not. Hockey doesn't represent skiing either, neither does bobsled, figure skating, or the hammer throw, and they all are in the Olympics.

Halfpipe skiing should and will be in the Olympics, but you don't have to shit-talk aerials.

Out of every acrobatic endeavour in existence (eg: trampoline, gymnastics, diving, etc.), aerials is the pinnacle as far as the amount of flipping and spinning through the air that a human has ever achieved, so give some respect where it's due, even if it's not the type of jumping that we are into.
May 15 2010 6:39PM
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PEJibber31
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Not hating man but i'd say diving is the pinnacle... shit is gnarly.
May 16 2010 12:12PM
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teleak
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haha im a diver
May 16 2010 12:16PM
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JibbaTheHutt
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i thin that we saw that boarderX was the most enjoyable event to watch this year so i think it wont be to long before people want more action sports
May 16 2010 12:25PM
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whodunit
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When you say "a lot of skiers" do you mean actual halfpipe competitors? I'm guessing not.  From everything I've read, all the serious competitors want it in the Olympics.   I've heard that snowboard slopestyle is going into 2014 but because ski slopestyle doesn't have World Cups that it won't be considered. Halfpipe skiing seems to be almost a sure thing.  It's too bad taht snowboarding will gain more attention overall, even though slopestyle skiers are killing it.  It would be cool to have both halfpipe and slopestyle included for both.

May 16 2010 1:12PM
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CDdesign
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skiing in the Olympics would make shawn white look bad because of the bigger better tricks.  thats why there is snowboarding and not skiing!
May 21 2010 10:02AM
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AA-Shred
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What!?
Of course they don't represent skiing... they don't SKI!
Ariels on the other-hand is a skiing sport, even though it doesn't accurately represents today's skiing, it is still skiing!!


And yes skiers Pipe should be in the Olympics, bring the best sport to the world!
No-one will ever want to watch snowboarding again, sorry correction: no-one wants to watch snowboarding.
May 21 2010 11:27AM
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dompuch
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For sure
May 21 2010 2:44PM
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EmperorKuzco
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Mike, curling is fucking awesome
May 21 2010 2:47PM
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TheUngroomed
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ya i dont understand why your asking this on a 99% park/pipe skiing community site. Everyone wants it with the few exceptions and they gotta have tall tees!!!
May 21 2010 8:15PM
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PtownJUNGLE
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read somewhere that this might happen in the near future.
May 21 2010 8:33PM
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artrud
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this
May 21 2010 8:36PM
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Cincher
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Problem is, if they make the rules as strict as the FIS (right organization?), shit's gonna suck hard.
May 21 2010 9:39PM
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EC-Skier
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hit it harder
May 21 2010 9:42PM
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84891jnf92048
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i believe as an olympic, and nationally organized sport, it would have to have drug testing as well
May 21 2010 9:46PM
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Cincher
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Well I don't see how that's a problem, I'm more concerned about how they might possibly judge the athletes. I don't want it judged similarly to moguls.
May 21 2010 9:56PM
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fratskier69
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haha you really pissed off some girls from my barn, they are seriously worried about that horse's health
May 21 2010 10:10PM
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