i know i don't associate bmx with javelin . I associate bmx with 10 year old kids though , not grown adults but thats just my opinion . Olympics will be good to get younger crew into the sport but i fail to see how it is going to "kill" the sport as you suggest it has to other sports . I think it is good for the people who want and can compete at that level and want to succeed on an olympic level .

For a "noob" to compete on a raceboard at an olympic level would make them a pretty talented "noob" . My money is on you being a bitter windsurfer who had made a new account just to troll the kitesurfing forums trying to get a bite :)

Think your looking at it wrong. Kite racing is taking the path of sailing, essentially moving away form the other forms of kiting, I would even say kite racing wouldn't want to be associated with surf and freestyle to get the profile it needs to be an Olympic sport.

If it does make the Olympics about the only things that they will have in common will be using a kite, you might be right on it generating more interest but your not going to see people on race boards at the local surf break or freestyle area.

The youth olympic medal was not offered directly to kiteboarding, its been offered by the IOC to the International Sailing federation (ISAF) that govern the sailing class of Kite Racing.

It will be listed as a sailing medal, much like kite racing has been included in the World Cup events for the past year.

We've already seen the funding start to flow to help develop more racers, specifically the juniors, by the way of travel grants recently.
We have a local junior travelling to the world chanps next month.
The olympic will mean more formal support for juniors, training and funding.

Will it mean the local break is over run with new kiters, very unlikely and about as much risk as local sail boats, dingies, catamrans over running local breaks & flat water spots.

By example in WA, around 600-900 junior school kids are afforded the opporunity to learn to sail each summer through development programmes such as Tackers. Thats a huge boost to the confidence and life experience that they can apply to all areas of their life.
Olympics commercials aside, a big focus is on development programmes and funding is made available to this. It would be great to see more juniors learning to kite.

Look what happened last time it was proposed for the olympics, we got amazing development in race kites and boards.
Without that massive push the ozone edge (as example) might not have been the kite we have today.

Podcast interview with Markus the Exc Sec of the IKA, some interesting discussion on the new olympic medal for sailing-kite racing.

https://m.soundcloud.com/kiteracingnet/markusschwendtner