The old school Athenians must be rolling over in their graves

Posted on Fri Jun 08, 2007 at 04:44:54 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: 2012 Olympics, skateboarding, stupid (all tags)

The 2012 Olympics are looking at going down in history as one of the most humiliating international competitions of all time if they keep going at their current pace. First they embraced a logo no-no that was so hideous people could actually believe that it would provoke seizures. The logo was cleared of all charges but the point is that nobody thought the jigsaw puzzle wannabe wouldn't fry someone's brain, so that should tell you something about the absurdity of the thing. But the Olympic Committee's latest idea could make the logo fiasco look like a stroke of genius.

The 2012 London Games could mark the debut of skateboarding as an official Olympic event. You heard right; skateboarding! Those annoying little punks that ride around strip mall parking lots all day long, minus the occasional weed break, and ding up the doors of your car now might be walking around with gold medals around their necks! You gotta be kidding me! Thank goodness there is still time to stop this travesty before it gets finalized. The International Olympic Committee and the International Cycling Union still have to iron some things out before skateboarding hits the grandest stage of them all.

Listen, I know that skateboarding is a tremendous skill that takes dedication, focus, guts, precision, timing and the rest of the shebang but if skateboarding becomes an Olympic event then bungee jumping and freestyle walking aren't far behind. Does anyone really want that? I didn't think so. And anyways, what would happen to the almighty X Games should their main attraction start going for the gold? Suddenly a giant X medallion just doesn't have the same appeal as it used to.

Apparently the Olympics think that adding vandalism skateboarding to the list of events will make the younger generation more interested in The Games. But if they really wanted to appeal to the youth of today they should try something more along the lines of the Trojan Games. All this skateboarding stupidity will do is ruin the Olympic Village experience for all of the real athletes. Can you imagine training your entire life for this one opportunity at success and then the crew of Jackass and Viva La Bam are constantly doing beer-bongs and tag teaming Jessica Simpson while you try to mentally prepare? This has international incident written all over it.

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[TheStar.com]: Skateboarding could be in Olympics

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