2024-07-27 17:25:02
Skateboarding
UPDATE (3:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 27) — Men’s skateboard street, originally scheduled for Saturday, July 27, has been postponed due to slick course conditions and rain. The event will now be held on Monday, July 29. The women’s skateboard street events remain scheduled for their original times on Sunday, July 28, with prelims at 6 a.m. ET and the final at 11 a.m. ET.
American Nyjah Huston is back to avenge a seventh-place men’s skateboard street finish in Tokyo, where compatriot Jagger Eaton took bronze while skating on a broken ankle. But they have their work cut out for them against a dominant trio of skaters from Japan: defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome, 14-year-old prodigy Ginwoo Onodera and reigning world champion Sora Shirai. This has the potential to be Team USA’s first gold of the Paris Games.
Both Horigome and Huston faced adversity in qualifying for these Olympics. Horigome almost missed out amid intense national competition, winning the final qualifier in June to secure his spot, while Huston won three qualifier events following an August 2022 fall in which he tore his ACL, partially tore his meniscus and fractured his tibia.
