11. A tourist in space illustrates an age in which there are very few places left where adventure tourism and extreme sports cannot be found. 12. According to Marquez, fashion companies are giving importance to extreme sports because the athletes have become somewhat of role models for the younger generation. 13. Brittania sees some inspirations of extreme sports in its designs. 14. But along with the extreme sports growth the X Games helped generate has come the possibility of overexposure. 15. But the chance of serious injury and death is always there, especially as the popularity of extreme sports increases. 16. But the overall commercialization of extreme sports is so far along that protests by a few purists seem unlikely to make a difference. 17. By bike, skateboard or inline skates, the Rocket Racers must enter tournaments to save their favorite extreme sports shop. 18. Climbing is seen as an extreme sport by media and land managers. 19. Comes the umpteenth commercial featuring extreme sports, or crashing waves, or the truck conquering a rock tower, and the eyes glaze over. 20. Deep-space phenomena that emit X-rays are the cosmic equivalent of extreme sports. |