Japan Is Golden Again In Tokyo Olympic Skateboarding Competition

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Young athletes from Japan are dominating in the skateboarding competitions at the Tokyo Olympics. So far, they've won all three gold medals in the skateboarding competitions that debuted during these Games. The latest winner is Sakura Yosozumi, who claimed gold on Wednesday in the park skateboarding final.

The competitors skated around a course built for the Games, doing midair tricks and soaring through the valleys and grinding on and soaring over the lip of the curved concrete walls.

Yosozumi, 19, earned the gold medal, scoring slightly higher than her 12-year-old teammate, Kokona Hiraki. Thirteen-year-old Sky Brown, whose mother is Japanese, represented Great Britain, her father's country. She earned the bronze medal. If Hiraki or Brown had won the gold they would have been the youngest gold medalists in Olympics history.