In the summer of 1993,ron semaneo,

In the summer of 1993,ron semaneo, director of programming for the U.S. sports cable
channel ESPN,came up with an idea for a new sports program. While he was watching
television one afternoon, Semaio started to think about how much young people liked to do extreme sports,like skateboarding, snowboarding,and BMW riding.He thought of an event where people could watch athletes complete sports in a kind of extreme Olympics.