Still, skateboarding in the Olympics is unlikely to sit well with the sport's more hard-core elements. A major boycott by skaters in 2012 seems unlikely, however.
Olympic skateboarding would most likely feature the sport's vertical discipline, performed on massive halfpipe ramps like those featured in the X Games.
"There are plenty of successful skaters that have made their careers almost exclusively by competing," Hawk wrote.
"These are the ones that will rise to the occasion when offered a chance to be Olympic athletes. The irony is that the naysayers whose livelihoods are based in the skateboard industry will end up benefiting from the newfound global interest," he wrote.
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