![]() ![]() ![]() “And everyone has tricks that are super special for each guy.įor example, Gustavo (Ribeiro) has tricks that I wouldn’t do, and I know I have tricks that he’s never going to do. "Everybody has their own tricks," Giraud said. Japan have golden hopes for their newly established world street skateboarding champion Horigome Yuto, when the sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo tomorrow ©Getty Images Street takes place on a concrete course, packed full of ramps, rails, boxes and transitions, where each skateboarder is given 45 seconds to put together their best possible combination of tricks in a run.Īthletes are given free rein within their 45-second time slot to use the course in whatever way they see fit to impress the judges. The skateboarding programme at Tokyo 2020 includes street and park events for men and women, with the men’s street competition tomorrow followed by women’s street 24 hours later - although rain forecast for Monday may force the rescheduling of the women’s competition. "It’s going to be super hard (to earn gold)." "If anybody here has the best skateboarding day of their life, they could win. Her delighted mom didn’t take much convincing.ĪP Sports Writer Stephen Wade and Miina Yamada contributed to this report.Multiple champion Nyjah Huston of the United States and Japan’s world champion Horigome Yuto will be the main focus of attention when skateboarding makes its Olympic debut tomorrow at the Ariake Urban Sports Park here.īut France’s Aurelien Giraud, sixth-ranked, commented: "The 20 skaters out here are the 20 best in the world, which means that there’s 20 skaters who can win. She said she aims to be at the Paris Games “and win.”īut first - barbecue. “I’m not surprised if there’s probably already like 500 girls getting a board today.” “This is like opening at least one door to, you know, many skaters who are having the conversations with their parents, who want to start skating. “It’s going to change the whole game,” U.S. Skaters predicted that by time the next Olympics roll around, in Paris in 2024, the women’s field will have a greater depth of talent and tricks, built on the foundations they laid in Tokyo. “And I won, because I was the only one,” the 30-year-old Guglia said. The first contest she entered, at the age of 13, had no women’s category, so organizers had to create one for her. I want to be like her,’” Bufoni said.Īnnie Guglia of Canada said she didn’t see any other girls skate during her first two years on her board. ![]() “So I want be that girl that the little girls can show their parents and be like, ’She can skate. “He thought girls shouldn’t skate because he had never seen a woman skate before.”īufoni added, half-joking, that getting him to relent had been harder than qualifying for the Tokyo Games. The field included Leticia Bufoni of Brazil, whose board was snapped in two by her dad when she was a kid to try to stop her from skating. ![]() “Skateboarding is for everyone,” she said.īut that hasn’t always been true for young girls, even among the 20 female pioneers who rode the rails, ramps and ledges at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. She first caught the skateboarding world’s attention as a 7-year-old with a video on Instagram of her attempting, and landing, a jump with a flip down three stairs while wearing a dress with angel wings. “Now I can convince all my friends to skateboard everywhere with me,” Leal said. The bronze went to 16-year-old Funa Nakayama of Japan. US starts Olympic preparation in Beijing without 3 playersīoth Nishiya and Leal became their countries’ youngest ever medalists. The silver went to Rayssa Leal, also 13 - Brazil’s second silver in skateboarding after Kelvin Hoefler finished in second place on Sunday in the men’s event. She said she’d celebrate by asking her mother to treat her to a dinner of Japanese yakiniku barbecue. It’s anyone’s guess how many young girls tuned in to watch Momiji Nishiya of Japan win the debut Olympic skateboarding event for women, giving the host nation a sweep of golds in the street event after Yuto Horigome won the men’s event.īut around the world, girls trying to convince their parents that they, too, should be allowed to skate can now point to the 13-year-old from Osaka as an Olympic-sized example of skateboarding’s possibilities.Ī champion of few words - “Simply delighted,” is how she described herself - Nishiya let her board do the talking, riding it down rails taller than she is. TOKYO (AP) - On the Olympic podium stood three teenage girls - 13, 13 and 16 - with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards that most kids their age only get to see on Instagram.Īfter decades in the shadows of men’s skateboarding, the future for the sport’s daring, trailblazing women suddenly looked brighter than ever at the Tokyo Games on Monday. ![]()
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