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Should These Winter Sports Be Future Winter Olympic Events?

Sled-Dog Racing (or Dog-Sled Racing) is a dog-sport that involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver (or musher) standing on the runners.

Should Sled-Dog Racing be a Winter Olympic sport?

Ice Stock Sport is a sport, somewhat similar to curling. Competitors slide ice stocks over an ice surface, aiming for a target, or to cover the longest distance.

Should Ice Stock Sport be a Winter Olympic sport?

Ski ballet (or Acroski) is a choreographed routine of flips, rolls, leg crossings, jumps, and spins performed on skis on a smooth slope.

Should Ski Ballet be a Winter Olympic sport?

Bandy is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a round ball into the opposing team's goal (larger than a hockey goal). Based on the number of participating athletes, bandy is the world's second most popular winter sport after ice hockey.

Should Bandy be a Winter Olympic sport?

Skijoring is a sport where a person on skis is pulled by a horse (or a dog). Competitions are usually races between 5 kilometers and 20 kilometers.

Should Skijoring be a Winter Olympic sport?

Synchronized skating is a discipline of figure skating where 8–20 skaters (depending on the level) skate together as one team.

Should Synchronized Skating be a Winter Olympic sport?

Vertical Ice climbing is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations done with crampons (traction device that is attached to footwear) and ice axes, and what ever other equipment the climber chooses according to the slope and texture of the ice.

Should Vertical Ice Climbing be a Winter Olympic sport?

Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line at as high a speed as possible, as timed over a fixed stretch of ski slope. It is a very dangerous sport as speed skiers regularly exceed 200 kilometres per hour (125 mph).

Should Speed Skiing be a Winter Olympic sport?

Yukigassen is a game between two teams with seven players each. The game is played on a court with certain measurements. It is similar to capture the flag; players are eliminated when hit with snowballs. A set number of snowballs (90) are made in advance.

Should Yukigassen (Competitive Snowball Fighting) be a Winter Olympic Sport?

Though the Biathlon (a Winter Olympic sport) combines both Cross-Country Skiing and Rifle Shooting, the Winter Pentathlon is composed of five segments: Cross-Country Skiing, Shooting, Downhill Skiing, Fencing, and Horse Riding.

Should a Winter Pentathlon Competition be held at the Winter Olympics?

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Should These Winter Sports Be Future Winter Olympic Events?

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