A possible problem I would be cautious of is that the Olympic committee likely will not accept expression sessions and freeriding as the format. They'll want to prescribe a points value system to each move like the old days, and out will come all the robotic riders with zero style and zero tweak. The battle to get away from Points-based competition took a few years and wasn't easy, and the waterski community had a death grip on competitions for years.
If it was to become an Olympic sport and remained a freeride event, and not points based, then it would be viewed as subjective and there would be huge disagreements about who "really should have won". I don't know. IMO it could be either really good or really bad for the sport.
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