As any sales manual will tell you, your best customer is an old customer. Until then it will be a joke. Nobody wants to watch a semipro ice hockey player try and skate on wheels and call it a pro sport. I had to raise this question since it is the most commonly asked question surrounding this great game of inline hockey. My answer is fairly simple.
Inline hockey is still a relatively young sport, including here in the United States.
I also believe that the Federation Internationale de Roller Skating and USA Roller Skating share in that same vision. Inclusion in the Olympic Games is very difficult for any sport to attain. Without the game being played in a true organized fashion in places other than the U.S. and Canada, the Olympic Games will remain a goal for inline hockey enthusiasts but, unfortunately, not a reality. In the meantime, USA Hockey InLine is doing whatever it can to promote the long-term best interests of the sport in an effort to someday have inline hockey considered as a part of the Olympic Program. However, I hope they prove me wrong.