Sakura Yosozumi of Japan will complete within the girls’s park skateboarding closing on the Summer time Olympics on Wednesday. It got gold and continued Japan’s supremacy within the brand-new sport. Ben Curtis / AP hide caption
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Sakura Yosozumi of Japan will complete within the girls’s park skateboarding closing on the Summer time Olympics on Wednesday. It got gold and continued Japan’s supremacy within the brand-new sport.
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TOKYO – Younger professional athletes from Japan control skateboard competitors on the Tokyo Olympics. To date, they’ve gotten all 3 gold medals within the skateboarding competitors that debuted throughout these computer game. The newest winner is Sakura Yosozumi, who took gold within the park skateboarding closing on Wednesday.
The challengers drove round on a course built for the Video video games, doing techniques within the air and crusing by methods of the valleys, dragging and moving over the sting of the curved concrete partitions.
Yosozumi, 19, got the gold medal and scored hardly additional elements than her 12-year-old colleague Kokona Hiraki. Sky Brown, 13, whose mama is Japanese, represented Nice Britain, her dad’s country. She made the bronze medal. Had Hiraki or Brown got gold, they’d be the youngest gold medalists within the historic past of the Olympic Video video games.
The 3 medalists state they’ve ended up being great mates which they’d pleasurable contending. Yosozumi discussed the unwinded, enjoyable environment made the rivals pleasurable. They hugged and went arm in arm after the event to deal with the press reporters.
“It is insane to be right here. I am so comfortable to be on the rostrum with these guys. They’re so nice. Everybody screwed up,” discussed Brown. Throughout her regimen, she made a variety of 540 spins and twirled her board 1 1/2 circumstances within the air. Break up her time in between Japan and California, Brown is a skateboarding feeling. She has a favored YouTube channel together with her little bro Ocean and was the main ever winner of Dancing with the Stars, Junior. She composed a e book to empower more youthful ladies and taped a track and video described as “Woman”.
Brown discussed it resembled a dream to get her bronze medal. “Skateboarding is a really good sport. There aren’t any guidelines in skateboarding,” she discussed. “I feel extra individuals will begin skating now.”
Yosozumi advised press reporters that there aren’t lots of skate parks in Japan. She discussed her family built one at her house which’s the location she informed to get sufficient to win a gold medal within the Olympics.
Final week, 22-year-old Japanese professional athlete Yuto Horigome got the main gold medal within the males’s opportunity skateboard rivals and 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya got gold within the girls’s opportunity skateboard rivals.
Silver medalist Kokona Hiraki from Japan (from left), gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi from Japan and bronze medalist Sky Brown from Nice Britain position at a medal event for the girls’s park skateboarding on the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. Ben Curtis / AP hide caption
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Silver medalist Kokona Hiraki from Japan (from left), gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi from Japan and bronze medalist Sky Brown from Nice Britain position at a medal event for the girls’s park skateboarding on the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday.
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