On a scorching afternoon in Tokyo, a pair of 13-year-old skateboarders turned the world¡¯s biggest sporting event into their own personal playground. They darted around the park, hopped over obstacles and grinded down rails in a show of skill and youthful exuberance.
Many sports are children¡¯s games at their cores after all, you just don¡¯t always see kids rising up quite like this on the world stage.
Thirteen-year-old Momiji Nishiya gave host nation Japan more to cheer about in the Olympic skateboarding competition, out-dueling Brazilian Rayssa Leal, also 13, and Japan¡¯s Funa Nakayama, the elder stateswoman at 16, for the women¡¯s street gold medal Monday afternoon at Ariake Urban Sports Park.
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