A daily visual guide through the lens of an Olympics newbie sent to Paris by The Washington Post. Street skateboarding
I’m Pete, and The Washington Post sent me to Paris to show you some of the wonders and weirdness you couldn’t otherwise see without being here.Let me back up. My last dispatch was straight from the sun-baked
To be honest, it wasn’t that much of a search. The first people I asked told me to go straight to Place de la République. Then I remembered: Just minutes before, I had stood up in a news conference and asked two Olympic medalists a question — a two-part question, for that matter.So I walked right up to the uber-cool, hardcore local skaters and introduced myself. And they were lovely.
Other than the Danes on my train, most of them cared little about the competition happening just two miles away.
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