Halfpipe in the olympics...

[Ice-Is-Scary]

I was thinking about it because someone had mentioned to be that they were considering it. I don't think thats the imagine the olympics are going for, thugged out little white kids acitng the fool. Most olympics athletes are relatively classy and hold themselves in a professional manner, the top half pipe skiers on the other hand.....

Any thoughts?

 

[Tinga]

well snowboarding got in there and i dont see skiing as worse of an image

 

[Ice-Is-Scary]

Shit, how long has snowboarding been in?

 

[Tinga]

i dont know but america domanated last time 1st 2nd and 3rd if im not mistaken

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

The first snowboarding halfpipe was nagano in 98 I believe.

 

[CBROOKS]

why do all ur posts say its ur first?

 

[snochronic]

so, should there be a 1/2 pipe discipline in skiing at the olympics?

 

[FUUUCK]

because hes above the whole "im cooler than you because of my post count" thing

 

[duhamelski]

haha, dumont and tanner going into the and blazing a couple minutes before the comp and are late for their runs. it would be classic

 

[chillonhill]

they had it in Lillihammer, Norway 1994

also. and maybe demo in Albetville 1990.

Would be kinda cool for sure, except for

some of the Rules! FIS

 

[grubix2]

Haha Danny Kass is no where close to "classy and hold themselves in a professional manner". Danny probaby had to go on water pills for 4 months straight to pass the damn piss test. Ross Powers might be the most proper out of all of them. I think skiers would treat it differently too, and well hey, the olympics could use some fresh meat to spice things up a little. I think people get a little bored watching sports that less than 1% of the world takes part in. These guys walk around with a stick up their ass most of the time. Theres nothing wrong with being classy, but I think people (particually americans and canadians) would like to see guys who break the mold a little.

 

[pag]

I don't want it, personnaly I don't skateboarding isn't in the olympic and it's alright. I don't want pipe skiing to be an olympic diciplin

 

[*DrewT*]

It would be sick as long as the atheletes don't change the way they ski to fit what FIS wants. But it's the olymipcs and who doesnt wanna win gold at the olympics so it could really change skiing into somthing different.. most likley in a bad way

 

[grubix2]

The way I see it... the olympics come around once every 4 years. It's one comp. I don't think that one comp every 4 years is going to change the entire sport. And it's only pipe too. yeah these guys might train a little to impress FIS, but at the end of it, Jon is still going to be Jon.

 

[j.bird]

i thought it was already decided it was going to be in whistler 2010?

 

[tjski]

ya it was decided that the halfpipe skiing was goin to be 2010 but personaly i think the olympics just want younger guns in the game, i mean it would give the olympics more of a younger crowed.

 

[Ice-Is-Scary]

it would be fucked up because all the aerialists would come over and eventually dominate, those guys train like crazy.

 

[EastCoastPride]

it has most definitely NOT been decided whether halfpipe skiing will be at the 2010 vancouver games.

 

[telestar6]

Oh yeah Danny Kass is soo classy. And Brett Tippie (Canadian snowboarder who got busted for possesion of weed) just has class oozing out his ass.

 

[Scoszko]

if it wasnt for danny kass, mountain creek would suck even worse....if thats possible

 

[DuncanK]

But after reading that article in freeskier, it makes me dought the likelyhood of them actually makin it however badly that sucks

 

[PUNX_on_PLANKS]

I could'nt fucking believe that they actually made halfpipe snowboarding an olympic sport. What a joke!

So if they gave that to snowboarding..then skiers should have it too!