3 teens stood on the medals podium for womenâs street skateboarding. Two are only 13
Updated: 5:33 PM EDT Jul 26, 2021
JOHN LEICESTER
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Updated: 5:33 PM EDT Jul 26, 2021
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it's time for your olympic drill. This is skateboarding, a sport that has dominated street culture, is about to soar to the summit of international sports. You've seen it in your neighborhood, but how is skateboarding gonna work at the games? I got start the clock. So here's the game plan. 20 athletes compete over two rounds. The top eight, go to the finals, top three, get medals at the Olympics. Skateboarding is broken into two competitions. Street and park. Street is basically what it sounds like a course made up of stairs and rails inspired by the cities where this happens in the real world, skaters get 45 seconds to blaze through with a series of tricks. Now you want to keep an eye on this, have a slide on the wooden deck of the board or grind the metal trucks where the wheels are Mix that with Ali's and flips in the air and skaters try to earn up to 10 points. Park happens basically in an empty swimming pool. The faster the skaters go around the curves to hire, they can fly in, the more tricks they can do That earns them points. And the goal here is to get as close to 100 as they can again, 45 seconds on the clock, speaking of which the drills over. But here's some history while you cool down, skateboarding is as american as corn dogs and tater tots. It probably started back in the forties or fifties with surfers in California, looking for something to do when there weren't any waves. It grew into an american pastime and then a staple of extreme sports and now a major olympic event that is, they're looking drill.