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Japanese 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya clinched the Olympic title in the women’s street skateboarding competition on Monday, shedding tears of happiness after nailing her final trick and becoming the country’s youngest-ever gold medal winner. Nishiya came out on top of an unusually young field of competitors, with all three medallists in…

What were you doing when you were 13? Trying to establish your taste in music? Becoming a teenage terror for your parents? Japan’s Momiji Nishiya just won her first Olympic gold medal, becoming the first woman to win an Olympic skateboarding medal, the youngest athlete in Japanese history to medal,…

It is a scientifically proven fact that there’s nothing cooler than skateboarding, especially when girls do it. (Hello, Betty.) Parents may dispute this truth, offering injury statistics and knee pads, but come on...what’s more badass than seeing a young woman dominate on her board, particularly in a sport that has…

Japan’s Nishiya, 13, becomes first women’s Olympic skateboard champion Japan’s Momiji Nishiya celebrates after performing a trick during the skateboarding women’s street final of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Sports Park in Tokyo on July 26, 2021. (Photo by Jeff PACHOUD / AFP) Japan’s Momiji Nishiya became one…

LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images The women's street final in the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo became a battle of the 13-year-olds as Momiji Nishiya edged out Rayssa Leal for gold Monday. It's a men's and women's double for Japan after Yuto Horigome took first place Sunday. #TokyoOlympics @NBCOlympicsHISTORY MADE ✅ At…

Ben Curtis/AP Silver medallist Rayssa Leal of Brazil, left, congratulates women’s skateboarding winner Momiji Nishiya. On the Olympic podium stood three teenage girls – 13, 13 and 16 – with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards that most…

Margielyn Didal ends gallant Olympic run, places 7th in the final Margielyn Didal ended her gallant Olympic run after placing seventh place in the final of the women’s street skateboarding in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the Ariake Urban Sports Park Monday, July 26. Margielyn Didal (AFP) Didal, who was…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Her success could help shift attitudes in Japan, where skateboarding is widely seen as an unruly pastime associated with rebellious youths, and is prohibited in many public spaces Author of the article: Bloomberg News Lisa Du and Tamayo Muto…

As the American Jagger Eaton stood on the lip preparing to drop into his second run, his head began bouncing to the beat. It is safe to assume the skatepark is the only place over the next couple of weeks where Olympic athletes will be listening to AirPods while they…

TOKYO — Just minutes after the first skateboard competition in Olympic history concluded, the icon with tattoos covering more of his body than water covers earth, the celebrity with 4.75 million Instagram followers, the athlete who awes other elite athletes, remained atop his board. He answered questions while balanced on…