Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games. Tokyo2020 TeamUSA
After a 12-month delay, the unprecedented 2020 Tokyo Olympics will take place without fans and spectators due to the city's COVID-19 state of emergency.won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport is often frowned upon.
U.S. skater Jagger Eaton took bronze, the Arizona native adapting best among the Americans to the extreme heat at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. Blazing sun softened rubber joints on the boards’ wheel axles, making them harder to control. The Californian was among those who struggled with furnace-like conditions in the skatepark of rails, stairs, ledges and other street furniture that gives the event its name.
Skateboarding’s Olympic debut delivered exactly what the Games’ organizers had hoped for: a high-adrenaline show of thrills and lots of spills from athletes plugged into younger audiences. Eaton celebrated his bronze by whipping his phone out of pocket and broadcasting live on Instagram.
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