HALFPIPE SKIING IN THE OLYMPICS

Ski_Punx

Ski_Punx

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Can someone who knows tell us why there is no freeride skiing within the HALFPIPE at this years Olympics? I mean it has been proven that Halfpipe Skiing at the X-games has done very well, with huge crowdes, amazing tricks, and HUGE amplitude! Like up to 10 feet higher out of the pipe than the snowboarders right?

So why is Halfpipe skiing ignored as an Olympic Sport? Will it ever be?

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Takes a long time to approve a sport for the olympics. Also, lots of skiers (including on this site) dont want halfpipe in olympics.
 
there is an article in freeskier about this...to resume it, we would need to get one discipline of skiing out of the olympics to get halfpipe in, and we would need a world your and world championships and a lot of other things...
 
i dont care, as long as if there is a slopestyle, is there a slopestyle? if there isnt, then theres no point in watching unless if bode miller skis drunk again
 
oh, of course. its "selling out". more money in the sport would suck, right?

skiing sold out 5000 years ago when the first skis were made by some caveman.
 
owned....skiing pretty much cant sell out...the more money the better...and if u wouldnt want it in the olympics...dont watch it...which im 100% sure you would as would anyone on this site
 
man I dont think it will be for atleast a long time. Sure it would be cool, but you gotta think about it there is already so many types of skiing all the racing events (3 that I can think of), aireals, freestyle, and that long jump type thing.

For snowboarding Im not sure how many race types of snowbaording, halfpipe and i think boarder cross maybe this year?

I think the only way to get half pipe in the olypics will be to eliminate one of the freestyle events, which wont happen.
 
slope style will probably be along time before it gets in. i dont think people that are runnig the olympics can handle slopestyle. have you heard the commentating for the freestyle mogul runs? it is hilarious.
 
And I know some of you guys wont like this.But for the sake of skiing I almost hope it doesnt get approved. Right now skiing is awsome and kinda underground, and I love it! I dont want it to be destroyed but the media. Honestly the olympics arnt for the "extreme" sports. Its more for the tradtional ones.

I think perhaps maybe the x-games should maybe get a bit more coverage on differnt networks and be taken a little more seriously. That would give skiing some more spotlight and not have to conform with all the bullshit.
 
POSSIBLY in 2010 halfpipe will be a showcase sport. to see if there is enough interest. but there is a tonne of opposition and i believe it needs to be showcased twice, but i could be mistaken, before it becomes and official sport.
 
okay the areas in the olympics or skiing right now are, alpine skiing that is are...

slalom- short cousre with 60-75 gates

GS - longer course then slalom with 40-60 gates

Super GS - combines the speed of downhill and technical skill of gs, around 30-40 gates and mid leanght

DH- longest course with betwean 20-30 gates

combined - top slalom and dh runs times combined

arieals - were they go off those super vert quarter pipe looking jumps

moguls - sealf explanitory

if they were to get rid of any of those for halfpipe it would be combined.
 
if your affraid of skiing being sold out you shouldnt want it to be in the x games. thats the worst shit i've ever laid eyes on, skateboards with x games written on the bottom being sold at walmart ?
 
and yet enough countries are into the game of bridge,"life saving", and tug-of-war, for them to be recognized sports in the olympics
 
to do this the skiers would have to astabolish a team much like the olympic snowboard team, in which they can where what they want, coach them self, and take sponsor ship money from who they want. The problem with bringing halfpipe skiing to the olympics is that it would become to political. a few things could just ruin the even and the sport.

1. judges will suck at judging

2. people will huck and not try smooth shit

3. the city that is hosting the sport must first make it an expidition sport. To do this it has to be approved by the olympic commity. Then for it to become a permanent sport like racing it would have to be furthar discussed in the commity.

another reason would be the problem with drug useage. This would probely result in tanner not being able to preticipate in the event, aswell as many other skiers.
 
it takes a long time for the persons in the olympic to take such a desicion and the only way they could add pipe skiig is that they remove one of the sports already there, and they are not thinking of that
 
I don't see what is the issue with drug usage. They can always quit. Tanner said in many interviews he would quit doin stuff to get in the olympics.

anyways, if they have to take out an event, they should take out aerials. There is nothing new in that sport. It is the same damn straight up flips and stuff every time. It's so old.

They already have a pipe set up for snowboarding pipe, it shouldn't be that hard to house 20+ more athletes and friends.
 
it was said 90% of all americians that watched the olympics watched the snowboard pipe comp so i think they would get a great outcome of views if they did skiing, but its not about views, they sould drop some of the gay shit that they telivise and put more skiing and action winter events
 
what I'm worried more is about the FIS and the judging, I mean I don't care if every1 know what we do like skateboarding. It's just that I want newschool skiing to keep on the same angle of vision, not a super competitive thing that you train only to go to the olympics and bla bla bla... Like to keep out of the 100% competitive thing, that's what I like the most about it, it's just about having fun, and getting better because it's fun to. Skateboarding is huge now and it never went at the olympics I don't think we need to do that.
 
Word, but chances are that being snowboarding is in there, skiing will have to join.

First they have to do a few things though..

They need to get better judges, and then they need to establish a world cup schedule that is more... orderly I guess.

Im taking a guess that by 2014, freeskiing will DEFINITELY have established itself and be as world renowned as snowboarding. It will surely make it that year, if not 2010 in Vancouver.

Iono man, I hate the FIS, and being the FIS would have to run this event, it would suck ass. Its all about winning, and if you dont win, your coach will yell at you like it was football and all that shit, and you would be kicked off the team... It would be no fun.

However, being its bound to end up in the olympics due to the success of snowboard halfpipe, us skiers will just lay back in the limelight and collect our dues up untill that time. By that time in which, skiing will have 8 or so more years on its belt, pretty much twice as much as it has already, especially if you pinpoint the turning point in freeskiing to Johnny Mosely's 360 Mute in the olympics.

Think about it though... Kye Petersen will be 23 or 24 in 2014. He will be as old as Tanner Hall is now.

Hes my pick for the 2014 gold.
 
Chris Robinson, who sits on the FIS Selections and Review Committee (not sure if that's its official name), said in an article for a ski mag that NO group (including corporate backing) has put forward a solid proposal for its inclusion as an Olympic sport. Yes, a number of people said they thought it was a great idea BUT seemed unwilling to do the leg work to get it moving. i.e. Tanner Hall saying he'd ski pipe in the Games just isn't enough.

Add to that, the time it takes the FIS bureaucracy to do a review and then forward a recommendation to the Olympics Selection Committee, for inclusion, and you'll eat up a few years pretty quickly. i.e. They only meet once or twice a year and you have to get on the agenda first!

At this rate, I'm doubting it'll even be a demo sport in 2010 - but I hope I'm wrong.
 
Lots of misinformation in this thread:

- Halfpipe will not be a demonstration event in Whistler, they no longer have "demonstration sports" in the Olympics, that stopped years ago. You are either an official sport or nothing.

- The only way for Halfpipe to get in the Olympics is if FIS pushes it through, they are the governing sport body that is tied the IOC. For this to happen, the FIS World Cup tour needs to become more of a solid tour with more events, more countries supporting it, and more ski companies sending the top riders to the events.

- At the moment FIS is not yet pushing for Halfpipe to get in for Whistler, for the reasons listed above. This is not to say that they can't make it happen. Snowboarding was fast tracked into Nagano in about 2 years.

- FIS will not necessarily "Fuck up the sport", I attended a recent FIS World Cup that was handled very well. I made a thread about it earlier, and will bump it back to the top, it's titled "FIS World Cup Halfpipe". Check it out.
 
How is that selling out your a moron. The Olympics is the most pretigious sporting event in the world. I guarantee you if you ask any pro(tanner or simon) they would love to win a gold medal. I cant believe you said that.
 
im pretty sure the reaason pipe still hasnt made it because in order to put a new sport into the olympics they have to take out a sport...and i guess its too hard for them to pick which winter sport....my pick would be figure skating..haha but ya thats jus wut i read
 
no, that's the last thing we need. fuck the world cup, fuck FIS, and fuck the Olympics if they put halfpipe in the games.

and whoever said that the pros wouldn't pass the drug test was most likely right. joking, but right. hell, Klug or however you spell his name tested positive for marijuana use... and no one was surprised.
 
it's so funny how people think the xgames are better than the olympics in comparison to selling out and commercial status. The xgames are all about advertising, that's all it is, taco bell and gellitte booths all over. At least the olympics have deep roots. Sure the events in the xgames may be cooler than those in the olympics but they are by no means more core, and for the sport.
 
As far as I know, all of the top pros want to be given the opportunity to compete in the Olympics.

If I heard all of the pros saying that they didn't want it in the Olympics, then maybe I would be inclined to agree, as they are the ones who it would directly affect.

Seems like the anti-Olympic statements are being made by people who would never really have a chance to go anyway.
 
Its bullshit that Skiing is not a half pipe event and snowboarding is. Skiers go bigger and have way more style whoever decided not to include skiing or whoever voted against it they are all homosexuals.
 
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