Roller Speed Skating might be the next sport to reach the Olympics. Two organizations in Europe are pushing and have been fighting to get skating sports including, Roller Speed Skating, Roller Figure Skating, and Roller Figure Skating into the Olympics. They started in 2000 where at the time, it was a huge chance that any roller skating sport becoming an official Olympic sport was very slim. However, they are still fighting and hoping to get the sport into the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Being a Roller Speed Skater, I would love to see this sport become a part of the Olympics. This sport is dying even though we have skaters all over the world and in many different countries. More and more people just keep leaving Roller Speed Skating and, at least our organization, are running out of ideas to get more people into the sport. Having this sport in the Olympics will show people a new sport that is intense, fast, and very fun. This is actually one reason for me writing about this subject. I’m hoping that my blog will bring more people into this sport and to try and expand the Speed Skating community. I know it is also, Federation Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) and British Inline Skater Hockey Association (BiSHA), plan to help keep this sport alive. Another reason they seek to become an Olympic sport is that many Roller Speed Skaters turn to Ice Skating to help get into the Olympics. That helps the Ice Skating community grow but now we are losing more people and expanding Roller Speed Skating into an official sport in the Olympics, allows those Speed Skaters to stay in this sport and they can also join Ice Skating and still skate both sports in the Olympics.
FIRS and BiSHA are working hard and trying their best to get this sport out there for more people to see. Roller Speed Skating is dying and expanding this sport and putting it on the world stage will allow more people to see what this sport is about and will hopefully have Roller Speed Skating a more common/popular sport to participate in.
- The picture above shows a huge race at a really big event in Buenos Aires
The US Roller Speed Skating Blog 