Motorcycles in the Olympics? Seems like a tough hill to climb, but the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme is lobbying for the inclusion of motorcycles for the 2024 Olympics Games to be held in Paris, France. The FIM is not lobbying for supercross, motocross, enduro, or even flat track. No, the governing body is hoping to get Trial-E (trials riding on electric bikes) to be included.

Action sports are already making inroads into the Olympic Games, as skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing, among other sports, were added for Tokyo 2020.

According to the International Olympic Committee, any new “game” must be: youth-focused, equally accessible for men and women, sustainable, spectacular, practiced on all continents, and requires no new infrastructure.

According to an FIM press release, FIM vice president and French Motorcycling Federation president Jacques Bolle, along with FIM honorary deputy president/ French National Olympic Committee VP Jean-Pierre Mougin and three-time world Trials champion and director of the FIM Trial Commission Thierry Michaud all recently met with the Paris Olympics organizing committee of the Paris Olympics.

Jorge Viegas, FIM president, added: “We are convinced that the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 represent a unique and historic opportunity to allow Trial-E to become the first motor sport discipline to be part of the Olympic Games. This great première will be the foundation for a strong relationship that will bring the FIM, the IOC and all the Olympic family closer together for many years to come.”   

A short list of eligible sports will be submitted to the IOC shortly with a final decision not being made until after Tokyo 2020.

The FIM has already added its own Trail-E Cup to the Trial World Championship, with the inaugural event taking place in 2017.  

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