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I still can't wrap my head around CX getting a pass on the winter Olympic requirement for it a sport to be played on a snow or ice surface.
Sure, CX can happen in snow but it doesn't require it and how many elite races each season happen in snow? Figure skating, speed skating and cross country skiing can't happen without their snow or ice surface.
Would the IOC go for a sport that is only 100% sure to be conducted on snow in the actual Olympic games itself? How do they look past the gimmick that this weekend's CX World Cup race is and grant it some measure of legitimacy that would warrant inclusion with the other winter sports?
And it's not as if CX is a huge money sport that the folks at the IOC would see as ripe for exploitation when it comes to the typical corruption that occurs in the corridors of power surrounding big moneyed global sports.
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