Men’s street medalists want ‘more tricks’ in Los Angeles Games

Skateboarding has underlined its standing as an enormous draw for the Olympics in Paris this week, however medalists from the lads’s avenue competitors stated on Monday that they wish to see extra occasions added to the lineup.

The game was added to this system in Tokyo and shortly caught on, incomes everlasting standing within the Olympic agenda starting with the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles.

“(It is) solely proper for them so as to add some extra occasions,” stated American Nyjah Huston, a 15-times X Video games winner and one of many greatest names within the sport. He took the bronze within the males’s avenue competitors.

“Vert could be epic … After which they should add greatest trick, too. Finest trick could be sick.”

Skateboarding has captured followers’ creativeness after it was launched in 2021, boosting tv rankings for the Video games and drawing within the youthful fan base that organizers craved.

And whereas skateboarding should still be the brand new child on the Olympic block in some ways, the game’s high performers stated it was time already so as to add extra to the agenda.

“Extra occasions in L.A. could be greatest for the game,” stated American Jagger Eaton, who took the silver behind Japan’s Yuto Horigome.

“To consider L.A. already is anxious — it’s lots. However am I excited, yeah, I can’t wait to try this, I do imagine that extra occasions in L.A. could be greatest for the game.”

Olympic skateboarding will proceed with the ladies’s and males’s park occasions on Aug. 6-7.