THIRTEEN-year-old Momiji Nishiya wins gold in street skateboarding | Tokyo Olympics | NBC Sports

Japan Paul the only country to get three athletes into the final everyone else is just one like how are you Sir she in my opinion is going to be the face of women's skateboarding the next decade he has the talent to do it thirteen she's the youngest woman street finals posed to break an eighty five year old record for youngest individual Olympic gold medalist American Alexis so blown first one to drop on the five best trick portion and she threw town of UT a four point three did herself a solid thirteen year old hastily out scanning the courses the sun comes out on a very warm afternoon in that away here we go pop pop kicks let catch front sideboard slide right on out and that it's hard she's just finger tips how much the way we were talking what seventy pounds Max but how much weight did she put down three nine one four hastily out on her latest best trick you can put down one of our signature tricks front side camera twelve she does it massive score coming her way highest point getter in the qualifiers in here she is stepping up in a pressure packed situations five point goal for Nakayama back in first place Lee Allen now for Brazil okay she just Saturday yeah big time that was huge for outside people grind down the twelve there four to one so you call that right so she goes in the first place the thirteen year old hastily out fourteen point one nine and four solid scores she's got a she's got to put this down here same check same trick that we just saw from how you said same trick that we saw from rose frontside feeble four one five so momiji necia moves into the top five now the restart wow in it's three three nine so she increases or lead to fourteen point six four with one more trick still to go the chill of an opportunity to drop a low but she has to have this there is a big spin prop board down the aids scare four six six she jumped into first place with a fourteen seven four with one more trick still to go yes gap out front crook her signature trick put it down when she needed it fourteen point two %HESITATION so she jumped into third bronze medal position for the time being with a fourteen point four nine and there is one more run left the final best trick three to four for the Brazilian the puts the pressure on the Japanese skaters who will have the final say Japan will win the gold in both the men's and the women's street competition yesterday was you told her to go meet will be Moby G. oral B. funa well %HESITATION she certainly put an exclamation point on that already in the lead momiji with a fourteen seven four has just distance yourself at thirteen years of age her lowest score that you try to get rid of it is the two point nine one second run that's that's going to be gone because what he saw there was a lip slide on a totally different part of the course she launched a lot of that wedge over the flat bar to the H. there took a huge risk and made it your old six four six six three four three excuse me so he goes up to a fifty to sixty three point four or better the gold is hers for the goal no but Japan holds the street momiji necia claims the gold in the women's street competition what a performance

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Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 26 2021