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Originally Posted by Owen Smith
Snow boarding is very popular and didn't exist in the 1930s. Same with skate boarding and roller blading. All driven by technical changes making it possible.
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Snowboards might post-date the 1930s (though there's a claim for 1939), but don't really involve a new technology - nothing obvious prevents you from building a snowboard any time after the invention of woodworking. The roller blades do have a technology component, but the first roller skate rink opened in 1857, and most early roller skates are in-line.
Are any of the rest of those even sports. Maybe the hang gliding, but are there even any parachuting or scuba competitions? I suppose you can race in anything that can move, so I suppose you could theoretically hold a scuba race, but I've never heard of one. An endurance event seems pretty pointless - biggest tank wins?