Good point.Mathman said:I believe that this is one of the things that is holding the sport back. The most popular and successful sports do not tie themselves to the Olympic spectacle.
If I am not mistaken, the Olympic event that draws the biggest television audience world wide is the opening ceremonies. Bands playing, flags waving, people marching in their national uniforms.
The actual sporting events? Not so much interest there.
Mathman
May be this is a question of chicken first or egger first. Since FS is not a popular sport, for general populations they don't even knew there are nationals and worlds (shame on me, I knew some of pro competetions and Olympics FS competetion back in beginning and mid 90s before I even knew there are US Nationals and Worlds.). But when Olympics they tune in to watch the big "attraction", so the FS orgnizers do whatever they could to promote sport in hope to catch some fans will follow the sport after Olympics. That's whay make the OGM in FS so important than any other OGM.