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“I’ve been skating pro-contests for 15 years now but there’s Street League, X Games, but if you compare that to the Olympics there’s no comparison.” Head in his hands Huston flirted with disaster in the heats, when he fell on his first run and botched his first two of five attempts at a one-off trick.
It was the first of four gold medals to be handed out in skateboarding’s Olympic debut, with women’s street to be contested on Monday followed by the men’s and women’s park competitions.
“Considering that snowboarding has been in the Olympics since 1998, I’m surprised it took this long for them to figure it out,” skate legend Tony Hawk, speaking in Tokyo this week, said of skating’s Olympic inclusion.
“For me it’s very meaningful, very inspiring.” But there was disappointment for Huston, the much-hyped multiple world champion, who ended with four straight falls in the tricks section as he wound up second-last in the final.
Gold medallist Japan’s Yuto Horigome poses on the podium at the end of the men’s street prelims during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Sports Park Skateboarding in Tokyo on July 25, 2021..
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