The decision to remove ski ballet was part of a broader effort by the International Olympic Committee to modernize and streamline the Olympic program. As a result, sports that were considered to have limited global appeal or were not in line with the Olympic movement's values were phased out.

Today ballet skiing lives almost exclusively online. By the time the sport made it to the Olympics, after nearly two fraught decades of competitive evolution, it had already begun to decline: 1992 was its final Olympic showing. Less than a decade later, it had all but vanished. HOW was this an Olympic sport?