Japan, the dominant nation in skateboarding because the final Tokyo Video games, immediately (28/7) received the primary two medals (gold and silver) within the girls’s highway occasions at La Concorde, with Koko Yoshizawa ( No1 on this planet) to win Olympic gold.
Already first within the preliminaries, the 14-year-old skater from Kanagawa continued her present of energy within the ultimate, doing methods, slides and grinds in a sunny skatepark, below the Luxor Obelisk.
The cheers of the Brazilians, who arrived to encourage their favourite Raisa Leal, runner-up on the 2021 Olympics, weren’t sufficient. Unfazed, Yosozawa accomplished two masterful runs.
With a complete of 272.75 factors she beat compatriot Liz Akama (266.95), 15, and Raisa Leal (253.37), 16, in a ultimate the place all contributors had been minors.
The little Brazilian ‘skateboard fairy’ placed on a present for ‘greatest methods’, incomes one of many occasion’s highest scores (92.88) on a formidable bounce over a bar, however there was a fall.
Throughout the occasion, the judges mix the rating of the most effective run in two 45-second passes and the 2 greatest figures, in 5 makes an attempt, to present the ultimate rating.
“Born” on the streets of California, skateboarding is one in every of 4 extra sports activities on the Paris Olympics together with climbing, breaking and browsing. It would even be in Los Angeles in 2028.
Tomorrow in Paris, the Japanese may also shine within the males’s occasion due to Olympic champion Yuto Horigome.
The rating:
1. Koko Yoshizawa Japan 272.75 factors
2. Liz Akama Japan 265.95
3. Raisa Leal Brazil 253.37
4. kui Chenxi China 241.56
5. Poe Pinson USA 222.34
6. Paige Hayne USA 163.23
7. Funa Nakayama Japan 79.77
8. Chloe Cowell Australia 70.33
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