Artistic roller skating

italian TV performance of Tanja Romano, world champion

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[Kmots118]

Why the heck isn't this an olympic sport? And for the one below who says we already have ice skating.... I don't see any iceskaters doing cartwheels or handstands.  Do you? She was amazing.

[ColStarbuck]

Not when you get used to them, really! :-)

[SummerNAutumn1]

@Kmots118 Actually, Figure skaters do cartwheels. Backflips too.

[TheDevriesy]

Geeze, everyone needs to just calm down.. Roller and figure skating are both beautiful sports that take tons of hard work and commitment. Both are fantastic and both are valid. There is a place for everyone and to each his own. Why are we so insecure that we can't just be happy for each other and encourage each other. Women need to support each other!! I commend anyone who has the talent to do either of these beautiful and difficult sports.

[trombonemarshall]

man they have balls of fury blades of fury now all they need is a wheels of fury

[MyFudginBrother]

@pintohorseowner  DOES IT FUCKING MATTER!?

[Haniwa91]

@Kmots118 have you seen the backflips that some of the men used to do in figure skating?

[aftershock71]

I would love to learn how to ice skate, but because of my location and the ladk of ice rinks..I learned to roller skate. For some reason..only certain places will do ice rinks...

[Donnylutz00]

Roller skating isn't an Olympic sport because it doesn't have a big enough following. It's a beautiful sport but it is extremely similar to ice figure skating, and ice skating (though interest in many countries is down dramatically) has more of a following. I love both and have competed in both and my loyalty falls to roller skating, and I would love to see it at the Olympics.

[skaterpixie]

Back on the day (and currently), ice skaters used roller skates to train in the off season when they didn't have ice. Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski both started on roller skates.

[QuartettEnsemble]

@pintohorseowner hi,i'm italian and i don't speak very well english, but i write my opinion.i'm the italian champion of italy of artistic roller skating.i can say that it isn't all copy,a lot of spin aren't copy from ice skating,in the couple we have a lot of "lifting" that you haven't in the ice,wehave the show team.the show team are fantastic and you haven't them.and if the artistic roller skating go to the olimpics games, it's only for the show teams.artistic roller skating is more dificult.

[pintohorseowner]

@rollerbabe97 You're just in denial that you didn't copy us. Roller took all of figure skating's spins, jumps and spirals and copied them on roller skates. Did roller skating *invent* all of those jumps and spins? NOPE. They saw ice skaters doing them and decided to make a sport exactly like it on roller. That's called COPYING and there's no way around it.