Well, it's finally official: skateboarding is a sport.
Though skaters have long resisted such categorization – even during the 90s when the energy drink-fueled qualifier "extreme" was clumsily appended to lump skating, snowboarding, BMXing and even Rollerblading into one big commercial for the then-newly formed X Games – it was inevitable.
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: With Skateboarding Heading to the Olympics, What's Next for the Anti-Sport?
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