Keegan Palmer's OBSCENE kickflip body varial 540 delivers historic skateboard gold | NBC Sports

the men's final is eight men getting three runs best run counts eighteen year old Keegan Palmer now he was born in San Diego California family moved to queens in Australia back to insidious but he's representing Australia number one skater and in practice we're talking practice he was he really was he won every day at practice I struggled in qualifying but it was enough to get him into the final it's a little looser here he he could very well skate out here with the gold medal five forty that was incredible but the first one I've seen from him of that trick in this part and he's keeping it going ten seconds left look at the style slide was just finished with the okay it's a ninety the first pager borrows skates at eleven every time he drops in there you see Diggs came in still six five forty in the clouds he's either going to win the or is going to come off the board and explode he's not okay with just taking her easy at how much it just is Ron after we just sucking properly down I think we knew no matter what the skating was going to be as as high a level as it could be here but with he can come in and that strong that early there's just now it's there's no getting around it you got to put down your absolute best skating Pedro student look at the big on the island at the buzzer that was nice the judge is likely to the tune of eighty six one four so Pedro borrowed into second place great %HESITATION pretty run queries you know back up eighty two one five wants to build on that part to be a C. ninety four point four that was nice you live in the over the hill that trick it's easier to do straight up and down if you're carving it that markets Tom wow signature Corey frontside flip with no grab it was amazing right up to his feet there's that front side so well gapping straight up into the back tail see how he finishes this run here this role is first he better than eighty six one four to take over second he did most of the same run which is that's that's a heavy heavy run local just gliding that front side tail slide across the box straight into the front side you're ever going to see in the front sideboard slides in he does the trick yeah both of those tricks he doesn't better than anyone that's ever written a skateboard every time they and it is an approved at eighty four point one three secures that third place spot yes the kickflip body very old five forty it's obscene time to be able to do that Diggs main the pharmacist got such nice floater I mean yes so effortlessly links everything together so he knows exactly where he's going transition so beautifully it is the ultimate display of skateboarding like I said in in prelims it reminds me Chris Miller the wastegate in eighty five with with just every trick in the book that is such a great way to finish a run he's he's got he's got to go down a little he's catching it you can't see the board he's spinning he's got to get it back on his feet and set up the land in time and then it just go straight into the kickflip lean that is such a tech trick alley in front side on the island there about a ninety five point three four eighteen year old or take up now the young man from Queensland that is the king of the park course here in Tokyo

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Length: 5min 11sec (311 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021