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Article: The 4th R?: Officials cautious about adding mountain biking as official sport
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- August 8, 2002
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DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER
O education's three R's of reading, 'riting and 'rithmatic, more
and more West Virginians would like to add riding as the fourth, but
how quickly and at what level are still up for discussion.
At a legislative interim meeting last month, Sen. Walt Helmick, D-
Pocahontas, said that lawmakers wanted to "move aggressively" work
toward getting high schools and middle schools involved in mountain
biking, which he believed would provide students with more lifelong
benefits than such traditional sports as football and basketball.
But people involved with teaching and promoting mountain biking
want to be cautious about how soon they try to get it sanctioned as
an ...