Snowboard Cross

[john bickar]

I might be the only one, but watching the snowboard cross in this Olympics is making me think that it is exactly what the IOC and ISSF want shooting to become.

- It makes for good TV
- "Somebody's going to win"
- Final results are equally dependent on luck, small sample size, and skill

One key difference, of course, is that Snowboard Cross is an X-Games event brought to the Olympics, rather than an Olympic event manipulated beyond recognition in order to appeal to an X-Games crowd.

[Rover]

Change "manipulated" to "mutilated" and I'll buy it.

[jhmartin]

But there are inspirations too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/spor ... per-g.html

[SlartyBartFast]

Playing devil's advocate:
Are we insinuating that "once an Olympic Event, always an Olympic event"?

Which dropped sports should be reinstated under this philosophy, how many events should there be in the games, and how many athletes?

And seeing as someone has to pay for everything, how does the Olympics pay for it all if no one watches and changing events to appeal to the X-Games crowd is unacceptable?