Originally Posted by
Velo Vol
Gymnastics basically has some objective criteria for the scoring. Figure skating is dumb.
I think figure skating does as well. Pretty sure both "sports" have difficulty ratings that apply to all tricks, and then there's a style component also.
I'm not a fan of that type of "competition" though.
Proper olympic skateboarding events would include downhill, slalom, highest ollie, highest vert air, and maybe a pusher race.