[Star Trek Viewer]

... it may be due to the efforts of those who are participating in the "air sports" section of the World Games, currently being held in Taiwan.

The WG is kind of a "farm team" for Olympic sports, in the sense that only non-Olympic sports can be played in them, and yet the fact that those sports are played in the WG may be a point in favor of their consideration for inclusion in future Olympics.

See:

http://www.worldgames-iwga.org/vsite...m-item,00.html

Of course, orbital skydiving is not even in its infancy; while very high altitude skydiving has occurred, there are apparently no instances as of yet in which anyone has parachuted from orbital heights.

[Kiko Kea]

If they have synchronized swimming and gymnastics with those ribbon things, I suppose we can have sky divers jumping out of suborbital planes. Might as well.