Olympic skateboarding: Team Japan win gold and silver in Paris

Check out the teenagers smashing Olympic skateboarding

29 July 2024

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Japan's Coco Yoshizawa, 14, won gold in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games women's street skateboarding final. Here you can see her competing at Place de la Concorde in Paris with the Luxor Obelisk is seen in the background
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Fourteen-year-old Cui Chenxi, competing for China, finished fourth in the contest. Skaters have to show off their tricks and skills using different obstacles.
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Rayssa Leal, 16, won the bronze. She was Brazil's youngest ever Olympic medallist when she won silver three years ago.
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Oops! The headphones of US skater Poe Pinson fell off during the street skateboarding final.
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Liz Akama, 15, of Team Japan performs a trick on a railing on the street course.
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Gold medallist Coco Yoshizawa and silver medallist Liz Akama took home the top two medals for Team Japan.

In an energetic showdown in the final of the newest Olympic sport, street skateboarding Team Japan got the two top spots.

The 22 athletes taking part across were some of the youngest of the games with most in their teens and the youngest was just 12 years old!

Japan's Coco Yoshizawa, 14, won gold, just beating her team mate 15-year-old Liz Akama who got the silver.

Brazil's Rayssa Leal, silver medalist in Tokyo three years ago, took bronze.

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