Comments on: Surfing set for Olympics? http://www.huckmagazine.com/blog/surfing-olympics/ HUCK is a bi-monthly lifestyle magazine rooted in surf, skate and snowboarding. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:33:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Steve http://www.huckmagazine.com/blog/surfing-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-42991 Steve Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:14:21 +0000 http://www.huckmagazine.com/?p=12465#comment-42991 I just don't get why surfing (or snowboarding) wants to be in the Olympics in the first place. The whole point of the sport, in my mind, is that it is meant to be the alternative to mainstream sports that are confined by regulations, teams and organisations. Let me guess, for mainstream acceptance? Both sports are already 'cool' and already make the people involved A LOT of money. It can't be for the actual competition because some of the best athletes in both sports will flat out refuse to compete as a matter of principle. So the competition will not be as fierce as other events in the respective sports. Freesports should remain just that. The Olympics should stick to what they are good at: breeding mutated superhuman teenagers who achieve world notoriety at too young an age and burn about before they fully develop into adults. End rant. I just don't get why surfing (or snowboarding) wants to be in the Olympics in the first place. The whole point of the sport, in my mind, is that it is meant to be the alternative to mainstream sports that are confined by regulations, teams and organisations.

Let me guess, for mainstream acceptance? Both sports are already 'cool' and already make the people involved A LOT of money.

It can't be for the actual competition because some of the best athletes in both sports will flat out refuse to compete as a matter of principle. So the competition will not be as fierce as other events in the respective sports.

Freesports should remain just that. The Olympics should stick to what they are good at: breeding mutated superhuman teenagers who achieve world notoriety at too young an age and burn about before they fully develop into adults.

End rant.

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