Momiji Nishiya, Rayssa Leal, and Funa Nakayama just made OlympicHERstory at the Toyko2020 women’s street skateboarding competition! 🥇
American professional skateboarder and seven-time X Games medalist Alexis Sablone finished in fourth place. Sablone, 34,it felt “historic” to compete in the first-ever Olympic skateboarding competition for women, especially considering the decades of lesser visibility and legitimization for women in skateboarding.
“I think for so long the industry has really ignored females and given us no spotlight,” Sablone told. “You don’t see women on the covers of magazines, and sponsors aren’t paying women. So I think this has given the females in skateboarding a platform that can’t really be ignored. There’s a podium. Suddenly the industry will start paying attention. … I wish it hadn’t taken this to legitimize us, but it’s a step in that direction.
And that direction means teenagers like Nishiya, Leal, and Nakayama dominating the sport at such an early and impressive age, edging out skaters like Sablone who have been competitively skating they were even born. “Female skateboarders have reached critical mass,” continued Sablone. “There’s enough now that there will be prodigies. And they’re here.”
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