滑板进奥运, 再次被提上议程

我们几年前愚人节拿来说事的滑板进奥运似乎真的要在2020年东京夏季奥运会变成现实了，根据美国体育周刊Sports Illustrated介绍，6月12号递交给国际奥委会的新增体育项目名单从26个减少到9个，而滑板也列为9个项目之中。
So this is something people have been talking about forever, and now it could turn into a reality: Skateboarding might actually become an Olympic sport, starting at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.

负责筛选的最高领导Miterai告诉ESPN，筛选时所注重的条件有两个，1是这项运动是不是有足够多的青少年参与，2是这项运动在全球参与人数是否够多。

国际滑联（IRSF）将会在9月30日向奥委会递交最重提案，结果将于明年8月份之前揭晓。

不过滑板如果真的进了奥运，有几个人能逃脱尿检呢。

Sports Illustrated reports that the organizers have shortlisted nine sports—down from a list of 26, submitted on June 12—for inclusion in the Games. Among them are baseball, karate, softball, and "roller sports"—which, according to Fujio Mitarai, chair of the selection panel, includes skateboarding.

As Miterai told ESPN, chief among the panel's concerns are two questions: "Does the sport have the support of the younger generation, and how big is the population of the sport worldwide?"

The bodies representing all of these sports—in the case of skating, this is seemingly the International Roller Sports Federation—will make their respective cases to the organizers of the 2020 Games in August. Then, on Sept. 30, they'll deliver a final proposal to International Olympic Committee. The actual decisions will be made next August, before the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games.

If skating actually does become an Olympic sport, one can only wonder how that whole drug testing thing will play out.

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