Criticism
The addition of ski cross as a freestyle discipline drew widespread criticism throughout the freestyle skiing community. Most freestyle skiers believe that Ski Cross should be considered an Alpine discipline rather than a Freestyle discipline. Ski Cross athletes almost exclusively come from alpine programs. Many countries do not include ski cross as part of their national freestyle team, and instead maintain entirely separate teams for traditional freestyle and ski cross.
More criticism was seen when ski cross was added as an Olympic discipline. Many people believed that the new freestyle discipline should have been half-pipe skiing – the reason for this being that half-pipe athletes were brought up in freestyle programs that have a long history with the sport.
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