::::::Halfpipe Skiing in the Olympics:::::::::

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Does anyone know if they are going to have Skiers in the half pipe in the upcoming Winter Olympics? I hope so...I mean if snowboarding has it, they better have it for skiers right? AMPLITUDE!

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I figure if you peeing in a pool long enough that the water is destined to turn the color of your pee, and then other items, So why do you think that many water items are colored yellow?
 
i hate the olympics.

i hate skiing in the olympics more.

the teams will be complete shit and we will look like snowboarders did in nagano.

just look at next month's freeskier
 
the freeskier photo annual has a great article on exactly why skiing won't be in the olypics this year. Check it out, its pretty detailed, and it acctually makes some sense.
 
yeah the arcticle said unless we get a bigger global following, its unlikely for 2010 either. plus, it made the point that to add skiing, the cost would be so great it would be more practicle to take another sport out. Which would you pick
 
its going to be in the winter olympic in 2010 they said it would be a demonsration sport, meaning that even if it did happen we wouldnt be getting much of the cake, im just saying its not gonna be a huge thing even in 2010, hopefully later it will be more appriciated
 
they should get rid of the snowboard halfpipe to make way for the skiing halfpipe. snowboard halfpipe is so lame for me. skier pipe is so much more dope.
 
its seeming that the x-games is becoming a larger viewed winter sports venue than the olypmics. the olypmics needs sports like that of the x-games but because its every 4 years instead of every year it will not work.. halfpipe in the olypmics is retarded anyways. the judges all base the scores of textbook grabs, hand placement, and if they did all the required tricks.. ski halfpipe for the xgames is great because people can go out and just throw down what they want and not worry if they got in the perfect mute grab stock air
 
I think the article stated that 3/4 americans watched the snowboard halfpipe in the olympics.. that is a HUGE viewer base, and the x-games will never touch that. The Olympics are the biggest stage on which any sport can be showcased, so I think ski halfpipe needs to be in it. It would give our sport much needed exposure and would cement the sport as a legit sport for years to come.. something we need at this point.
 
and if someone did a big steeze 5 and someone else does a pencil 1260 with no style they will end up winning. so really non of the skiers that we like would win it would be all these unsteezed guys and the half pipe event would turn into arials.
 
If halfpipe skiing is in the Olympics ill bet five dollas and all the belly button lint i can scrape up that there will be a pair of High Societys on the podium, respect, brrrrrrat, brrrrrat, bigup bigup, jaaaaa selasia da rula, ja rastafari, bigup bigup
 
Exactly, so gay and so stupid, it will blow up our sport and make it be like Tony Hawk with skateboarding
 
No no no, it was more around 1/3. 32% was reported I believe. Still, that's a huge viewer base, and I doubt the winter x games even touches that.
 
Tony Hawk helped make skateboarding what it is today.. making it so skaters can actually skate and make some money they can live off. Dont you think thats good? or would you rather be an emo fuck who doesnt like shit just cause the masses do?
 
I am ffaaaarrr from emo. I hope all those kids die. I meant to say, like Tony Hawk with skateboarding, it's like "yeah Tony Hawk is so cool, he does 900s" I know he has made skateboarding what it is today but I don't want kids to be like, "oh man Tanner is sooo cool, he can do 1080s, we should buy his Armadas."
 
Its seems like the olympics for skiing wouldnt even come close to being as cool as the x games so who cares if it gets into the olympics
 
I can guarentee that tons of pro skiers would love to add an olympic medal to their trophy collection. Yeah it will be judged differently, but hell skiing is better than no skiing in my opinion. Not to metion, it would bring a shit load of new sponsored to the industry. People can cry all they want about style won't be judged but the way I see it, it won't bring change to the sport as a whole.

We would get such a bigger base too. a ton of people don't watch X-games because they have no concept of what skiing or snowboarding is. People would definitely respect our sport a lot more. Only thing is, coutry variety would be hard. It would also give a good oportunity for guys to get exposure. Maybe from different countries too: Japan, Korea, Australia. There are a ton of guys on here from around the world, and plenty more that don't even know about NS.com
 
the argument that skiing will become big like skateboarding just doesn't hold any ground... you're being a stupid emo if you hate things thata re popular to others, even if it's fun to you.
 
a major question: why is it that we need to be legitimized or exposed so badly, as a sport?
 
more money for our skiers, so they can make a living at it and not need to quit or start a company to be able to support themselves later in life.

better products comes with more money, more hills with better terrain parks...

I could go on.
 
that is certainly true.

but i mean, as far as the influence olympic halfpipe skiing would have on terrain parks; i would offer that olympic snowboarding has covered that already.

and it isn't as if im against ski halfpipe in the olympics at all, because i am playing the objective role here. i want to see the argument as to why it is so necessary. so please do go on.
 
Well, I know for one that I would love to see our sport at the highlest level of international competition posible, the Olympics. It would be awesome to see someone who we look up to as a skier be holding a gold medal... I just don't think skiing could get any better.

And there's the money factor which I think I covered well enoguh before.

The only downside is the judging really, and I think snowboarding was able to deal with that pretty well, so I don't see why skiing can't also.
 
FIS would fuck it up like they did the world championchips, the judges would be aerialist or moguk judeges and style would mean shit to them, so a tipical smooth jon olsson run would be ranked lower then some unknown hucking huge spins everywear, in other words itll be spin to win and thats gay
 
haha... and thats different from last year's "switch 10 fest" how???

Big tricks are the way it always goes in comps. Not that I agree with it, but theres nothing you can do. Blame the pros if you want they're the ones doing it.
 
Ok...here it is!

As Americans it SUCKS that people don't support our sport! Asshole kids who think they are too cool for the Olympics are CLUELESS! European nations support nation freeskier teams that pump money into resprts and PAY for groms to develop into professional skiers. NOTHING but good things resulted from snowboarding being in the Olymipics...in fact, without that exposure you would probably not have a superpipe at your hill today (Cooper, what???)

Imagine for one moment what would happen if mainstream skiers and non-skiers alike witnessed the awsome athletic display of a highlevel superpipe contest...$$$$$$$$, fame, fortune, girls, glamour, bigger parks, more legitimacy...

America sucks for skiers, I tell someone I "ski" for a living and they laugh like I am a bum. In Europe they are considered athletes and professionals, in the US we are considered outkasts...

For skiing to progress, we need to have a solid team that kills it in an olympis event....
 
how bout lets remove curling. i mean, janitors dont deserve to be in the olympics any more than skiers do.
 
i think it would be awesome. you cant always have what you exactly want right away, so judging will improve over time. our faction of skiing can only benefit form this kind of exposure, and as others said, legitimize it. good snowboarders havent lost their integrity just because the popularty increased, it just meant better gear cheaper. plus it would be fun to watch when im looking for endless excuses to procrastinate.
 
skiing in the olympics would be sick! i cant belive you guys are hating on that.

halfpipe is hopeful to be in the 2010. but with out your support it wont get anywhere. people need to start going to pipe world cups and norams.
 
this is a perfect example of WSI 3 years ago. other competitions make mistakes to no just FIS. and can you even name when FIS made a mistake in there judging?
 
buddy my coach was at the event and he said it was the best runned event ever. you werent even there, you just reading the artical of skeeze that micheal jaquet wrote and of course hes going to beak it because he invented the sloggin "fis sucks"

dope post a stupid comment when you dont have anything to back its up

pipe 2010!
 
I would diagree that snowboarding HP has fully exploited the potential of terrain parks. If we had BOTH skiing and snowboarding in the Olympics with a HP event, then there would be that many more groms at the grassroots level participating in pipe and park. Resorts will have to expand their terrain offerings as a result.

As to the other issues, I agree with opinions like Melvs' that it will inject much-needed money into the sport. In my opinion, there is NO WAY pro skiers should have B- or C-rated incomes compared to pro snowboarders and other action sports stars. Having HP skiing showcased in the Olympics will give new school freestyle the global exposure it deserves.

Most pros are absolutely in favour of HP skiing at the Olympics. As much as an X-Games gold is amazing, there's no substitute for Olympic gold. It's on a whole other level. There is no reason in my mind why snowboarding should have halfpipe and not skiing. If a substitute is necessary, then maybe drop traditional aerials. That would be sad, and I would hate to see it happen, but there have got to be MANY more HP riders today than aerialists.

As for judging, people whine and whine about FIS. Get over it! While I agree that there is the odd FIS imbecile at the grassroots level who doesn't have a clue about new school, anyone who actually knows the true state of judging knows that FIS judges consistently get it RIGHT, and ex-pro/non-FIS dinosaurs like Loubek get it WRONG. Just look at WSI 2003 with Tufflemire's one-hit HP win -- a travesty!! And X-Games 2004 HP where Olsson and Crichton got ripped off -- don't get me started!

The sure path to the Olympics for HP skiing is by having the top riders attend World Cup and World Championship events. This will show the IOC that the sport is ready for admission. The pros have started to do this, and will hopefully continue. There's no reason for them not to: the judging is usually better, the comps are actually well organized and there's prize money, too.
 
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