Watching the “street” skateboarding competition last week was fun — but it’s clear the “park” events are where the real action is.
In short, the park contest was a lot more entertaining than Street. Some of this is because of the format: each skater in qualifiers and finals got three 45-second runs to lay down tricks. If they fell, regardless of how much time might be left on the clock, it was over. Street was a more baroque mix of timed runs and multiple attempts at best tricks that, even for hardcore fans, felt somewhat repetitive and perfunctory.
The silver medal went to Kokona Hiraki, 12. Similar to 13-year-old gold medal-winner Momiji Nishiya in the Street contest, she consistently performed a variegated selection of technically sophisticated maneuvers — what skaters would call “a good bag of tricks.
At one point on the scoreboard, it seemed probable that all three medals would go to Brazilians, a powerhouse team that had, somewhat mysteriously given the empty stadium bleachers, a gigantic cheering section. Instead, Pedro Barros, 26, was the lone Brazilian on the podium, taking silver.
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