Britain s 13-year-old Sky Brown eyes record-breaking gold medal
AFP
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Brown was flawless in the three runs of her heat to register a best score of 57.40
British skateboarding sensation Sky Brown, 13, qualified second for the women s park final as she bids to become the youngest gold medallist in Olympic history on Wednesday.
Brown was flawless in the three runs of her heat to register a best score of 57.40, trailing 15-year-old Japanese Misugu Okamoto (58.51) into the final at Tokyo s sun-baked Ariake Urban Sports Park.
Japan s Kokona Hiraki placed third in the heats among an ultra-young field where only eight of the 20 competitors were out of their teens.
Maybe you already know Sky Brown, have read or seen one of her interviews, maybe you saw her on Dancing With the Stars: Juniors, or you, or more likely your kid, are one of her million Instagram followers, or the millions more who have seen her viral videos. Maybe you already know what the rest of us are only just discovering, which is what a glorious thing it is to see her skate, a mind-boggling, eye-popping, head-spinning trip, a 45-second whirlwind of handplants, nose grinds, aerials, leaps, twists, spins, and flips. Itâs acrobatics at a hundred miles an hour. Brown is so wildly talented that it was immediately apparent, even to these blind eyes, that she would win a medal.
Skateboarder Sky Brown becomes Great Britain s youngest ever summer Olympian medallist
The 13-year old claimed bronze
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Great Britain s Sky Brown (Image: PA Wire/PA Images)
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Sky Brown has become Great Britain s youngest ever summer Olympic medal winner aged just 13 years and 28 days.
Meet Sky Brown, the Olympic medal winner who has become Team GB s youngest at 13 13-year-old Sky Brown has become Team GB’s youngest Olympic medalist after claiming the bronze medal in the women’s skateboarding. Brown came back from two falls in the women’s skateboard park event at the Ariake Urban Arena in Tokyo. But the youngster absolutely nailed her third aattempt to score 56.47 and finish third behind Japanese favourites Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki. Aged just 12, Hiraki duly eclipsed Brown to become the youngest Olympic medallist in 85 years. Favourite Misugu Okamoto fell on her final run and missed out on the podium.
Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record in winning the women’s 400-meter hurdles on Wednesday.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO Sydney McLaughlin recently said that “iron sharpens iron” when it comes to her relationship with Dalilah Muhammad. They are the pre-eminent practitioners of their craft, the two fastest women ever to run the 400-meter hurdles.
Few events were more highly anticipated at the Tokyo Games than the renewal of their rivalry on Wednesday at Olympic Stadium.
It was safe to assume that something extraordinary would happen, and McLaughlin delivered, breaking her own world record to win her first Olympic gold.