Originally Posted by
tirebob
Why the hate on Skateboarding as a sport? I mean, get the little street urchin shitheads you have to deal with out of your mind and think about it as a skilled event, what makes it worse than other events? I actually enjoy watching people who are great at it. Their talent and skill is phenomenal!
I am not a fan of the politics of the Olympics, but I really do like the idea of the event and the springboard to life after sport it offers a lot of the amateurs is undeniable.
*Full disclosure - My roommate and close friend for a long time is an elite level Canadian gymnastics coach who takes/has taken many of her pupils to all the elite level world competitions including the Olympics and helped them parlay this into extremely good college and university educations so having witnessed all this from up close I am a little biased lol*