![]() Horigome was the only skater in the final to score nothing but nines in all of his tricks that counted. On his highest scoring stunt, Horigome flipped the board from under him on takeoff and slid it down a jagged rail on its nose, a trick called a nollie 270 noseslide. The 22-year-old had been among the medal favorites after he beat Huston at the world championships in Rome in June. His dad skated, and Horigome himself started as a 7-year-old, riding in a park 30 minutes drive from the future Olympic venue. While Huston melted down in the heat, Horigome was ice cool, executing the toughest tricks. We are just out there doing our jobs, to be honest, and having an awesome time." ![]() "We are not out there trying to vandalize or trespass, or the way a lot of people see it. "Hopefully, yes, after this people will be more accepting to skateboarding in cities like Tokyo," Huston said. Still, Huston talked up skating's Olympic debut as a win for skaters everywhere. That's kind of why I fell on one of those tricks out there." "Your board like gets so hot that it kind of flexes more. "Your feet starting burning up," Huston said. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)īlazing sun softened rubber joints on the boards' wheel axles, making them harder to control. (At) the cafeteria last night, the majority of the countries, the skate guys, we all sat down for dinner as like, 'Let's all sit down before the event starts.' You don't see that in swimming."Īmerican Nyjah Huston competes in the men's street finals at Ariake Urban Sports Park. "The goal is to progress each sport to the maximum and we can do that without having to bash or cheat," Puerto Rican skater Manny Santiago said. Putting competition aside, skaters whooped and applauded when others landed tough tricks - and hoped that other more buttoned-down sports were taking notice. The venerable sporting extravaganza had never seen an event quite as, well, chill as this, with laid-back camaraderie and an emphasis on fun among competitors steeped in the "life is a blast" philosophy of their counter-culture pursuit born in freewheeling California. Competing with headphones, laid-back vibes "It's going to be mind-changing for them," he predicted.Īnd perhaps for the Games, too. ![]() skater Jagger Eaton, who won bronze, immediately celebrated by whipping his phone out of his pocket and broadcasting live on Instagram.Īnd Kelvin Hoefler, who used to sleep with his board when he first fell in love with skating as a young boy, was so giddy with his Olympic silver that he started picturing kids back in his native Brazil perhaps putting aside their soccer balls and hopping onto four wheels instead. Skating'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. Kelvin Hoefler of Team Brazil won silver in the men's street competition on Sunday.
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