When Yuto Horigome is riding his skateboard with a wacky position, eroding rails as well as implementing kick-flips as well as nollies in Tokyo this summer season, he’ll be doing it in hopes of winning a gold medal.
Not X Games gold, Olympic gold.
Yes, skate boarding will certainly get on the Olympic program when the held off 2020 Games begin inJuly So will certainly surfing, as well as sporting activity climbing up also. As not likely as it might appear, the standard as well as somber Olympics will certainly be obtaining a little bit a lot more severe in Tokyo.
Extreme sporting activities might not be the very first point that occurs for lots of people when they think about the Olympics, yet both globes are obtaining a little closer with the enhancement of 3 sporting activities that are a lot more acquainted to X Games followers than those that mostly comply with competitors around the rings.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is most likely really hoping these sporting activities will certainly aid it make invasions with the sought after young people group, as component of its initiatives to obtain a more youthful target market hooked on the Olympic Games.
“We want to take sport to the youth,” IOC President Thomas Bach claimed in 2016, when skate boarding, searching as well as sporting activity climbing were included in the program for Tokyo 2020 in addition to baseball, softball as well as martial arts. “With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect anymore that they will come automatically to us.”
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