Olympic Skateboarding vs. Skate Culture, Explained

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Skateboarding’s debut at the Olympics felt like a success in the viral waves it made. After the street competition, this week we’ll see the men’s and women’s park events. For skaters across the globe, Olympic skateboarding prompts some existential questions. Gary Rogers, X Games commentator and host of Skateline for Thrasher Magazine, walks us through the Olympic competitors and explains why a gold medal will never be the pinnacle of a skater’s career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Japan will win the gold in both the men's and the women's street competition.
0:04.0	Yesterday it was Yuto Horigomi.
0:06.0	Will it be Mobyji or it'll be Funa?
0:09.0	Well, she certainly put an exclamation point on that.
0:14.0	Already in the lead, Momiji with a 14-7-4 has just distanced herself at 13 years of age.
0:23.0	Japan owns the street.
0:25.5	Momiji Nishi claims the gold in the women's street competition.
0:30.6	What a performance!
0:34.5	The debut star of the Tokyo Olympics might not be a single athlete or a country, but an entire sport.
0:43.5	Skateboarding, which broke every assumption that I had about age and failure and style and honestly, what it even means to be a sport.
0:54.5	So this week, with skateboarding leaving the street competition for the park events,
0:58.5	we summon an expert who explains how skate culture, his culture, is fitting into the Olympics
1:05.5	and whether it should want to fit in at all.
1:11.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, August 3rd.
1:15.1	This is ESPN Daily, presented by UKG.
1:20.0	Our purpose is people.
1:27.4	Gary Rogers, man.
1:28.6	Thank you for joining me.
1:29.5	I know you're the host of Skate Line.
1:31.0	You're from Thrasher magazine.
1:32.4	You're an X-Games skateboarding analyst.
1:34.3	So let me talk to you about kind of the biggest picture existential question around skating during these two weeks, which is Olympic skateboarding is a thing.
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