With all of theproblemsfacing this year ’s Olympics in Rio , it may sense premature to start worry about the summer games in 2020 . But the introduction of skateboarding to the Tokyo Olympics has at least one veteran of the sport bear on . AsABC Newsreports , Australian skateboarding legend Tas Pappas believe that testing for marijuana may keep some top athletes from competing for the Au .
TheInternational Olympic Committee(IOC ) lately sanction skateboard , along with surfing , sports mounting , karate , baseball game , and playground ball for the 2020 Olympic games . Skateboarding has been a staple of theX Gamessince 1995 , but the Olympics , which treats drug usage much more seriously , may attract a unlike case of contender . At least that ’s what Tas Pappas anticipates .
The backup skater told ABC News , " I ’m wondering how it ’s snuff it to figure out as far as the drug testing is concerned , because some guys skate really well on sess and if they have to stop smoking for one competition [ the Olympics ] it might really affect their performance . "
The World Anti - Doping Agency ( WADA ) has loosen their attitude towards marijuana since the last Olympian biz . Before 2013 , their threshold for the drug was150 nanograms per milliliter , which is enough to catch some everyday users week after the chemical substance enters their system . The standard has been raised to 10 times that to zero - in on athletes who take the drug that day . But for veritable cannabis users , a positive test could still mean disqualification .
The perhaps thin connecter between skateboarding and marijuana is n’t the only issue Pappas elicit . He also pointed out that the same brand of interior superbia that drives Olympian teams is n’t feel as strongly in skate community . " When you meet a lot of skater you do n’t sense like it ’s us versus them , it ’s just a bunch of guys getting together and need to have a skate , ” he say to ABC News . We ’ll have to wait until 2020 to see if an Olympian debut is enough to work the comeback - culture sport into the mainstream .
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