421. Skateboarding - A New Olympic Sport (with James)
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Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 29 January 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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A new episode with James about Skateboarding, which will be a new event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. James has been a skater for most of his life and used to write articles for a skateboarding magazine, so he's exactly the right person to talk to about this.
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| 0:57.0 | Right so we're going to talk about skateboarding can I do my introduction? |
| 1:04.0 | Oh I didn't know you're going to do an introduce. |
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| 1:14.0 | Skateboarding might seem like an annoying anti-social hobby for children, |
| 1:19.0 | but for the first time it's been accepted by the Olympic Federation as a proper sport and is going to be one of the events at the next Olympic Games happening in Tokyo in 2020. |
| 1:30.0 | So skateboarding apparently is now a mainstream sport it seems. |
| 1:35.0 | When the Olympics are shown on TV in a few years time, skateboarding might be one of the most popular events for audiences around the world, especially when you consider |
| 1:44.7 | the popularity of snowboarding in the Winter Games. |
| 1:49.2 | So let's find out about skating so that we are ready to understand and appreciate it a bit more |
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