<p>If figure skating is in the Winter Olympics, you can make a case for ballet to be in the Summer Olympics. They are essentially the same, except figure skating is faster paced.</p>
<p>Enough reasoning for it not to be in the Olympics IMO.</p>
<p>I think that it’s more intriguing because of the fast pace factor.</p>
<p>Meh… Ballet art always been dubbed an art rather than a sport, people go to the ballet like the opera or the symphony whereas the only figure skating “preformances” involve Donald Duck and Goofy… Ballet is an art a physically strenuous one but an art nonetheless.</p>
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<p>Well, one of those famous US volleyball players started I think in her early twenties, which while not middle age is definitely very late for an Olympian.</p>
<p>Is ice skating considered an art though?</p>
<p>^ I’d say no because most of the “preformances” rather than sports events involving ice skating involve Disney characters.</p>