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skateboarding is an Olympic discipline. After the Rio 2016 games, the IOC accepted that
skateboarding, baseball, surfing, karate and climbing will be present at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Skateboarding will be an Olympic sport for the first time in Tokyo due to the growing interest in urban sports.
Skateboarding was first practiced in the 1940s and has increased in popularity until today.
Being an urban sport,
Skateboarding’s Olympic debut continues!
This morning the women of the first-ever Brazilian and Japanese skateboarding teams hit the Ariake Urban Sports Park to get acquainted with the street course.
Who will be the first women s Olympic skateboarding gold medallist? pic.twitter.com/RFCFbpHVgx
Simone Manuel and Natalie Hinds of the U.S. after the race.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO The United States, with Simone Manuel swimming the anchor leg, won the bronze medal in the women’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Sunday.
Australia, the heavy favorite, won gold with a time of 3:29.69, and Canada took the silver. The Americans finished in 3:32.81.
Manuel was making her first appearance at the Tokyo Games, and much earlier than some had expected. She did not swim in the semifinal on Saturday and will not swim again until the individual 50-meter freestyle this weekend.
Olympics-Japan PM offers congrats to gold medallist as Games heat up Reuters 5 hrs ago
TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Sunday phoned judoka Naohisa Takato to offer congratulations after the triple world champion secured the host nation s first gold medal as the Games heat up in Tokyo.
Takato s victory https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/judo-judoka-tonaki-one-bout-japans-first-tokyo-2020-gold-2021-07-24 over Taiwan s Yang Yung-wei on Saturday offers organizers hope of improving enthusiasm for the delayed Olympics among the Japanese public, who are laboring under a state of emergency in the capital amid elevated COVID-19 cases.
Attention on Sunday turns to tennis player Naomi Osaka, who on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony, in her opening match against China s Saisai Zheng at the Ariake Tennis Park.
Olympics-Japan wins skateboarding’s maiden gold, Tunisian swimmer stuns superpowers
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Swimming - Women s 400m Individual Medley - Final - Tokyo Aquatics Centre - Tokyo, Japan - July 25, 2021. Yui Ohashi of Japan celebrates after winning the gold medal REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
July 25, 2021
By Sam Nussey and Takashi Umekawa
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan bagged skateboarding’s first gold medal and notched a surprise win in the pool on Sunday, in a day of high drama as 18-year-old Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui stunned the swimming superpowers with victory in the men’s 400m freestyle.
Skateboarder Yuto Horigome, who grew up in the Tokyo ward where the event is being held, took gold https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/skateboarding-horigome-wins-first-olympic-gold-skateboarding-2021-07-25 at the Games debut of a sport once seen as a symbol of counter-culture. That followed surprise medal joy in the pool for Yui Ohashi in the 400m women’s medley.