Japanese world champion Yuto Horigome held his nerve to be crowned skateboarding’s first Olympic gold medallist after winning a tense street competition in Tokyo on Sunday.
But there was disappointment for Huston, the much-hyped multiple world champion, who ended with four straight falls in the tricks section as he wound up second-last in the final. Huston flirted with disaster in the heats, when he fell on his first run and botched his first two of five attempts at a one-off trick. But he fought back with a 9.13 and 8.96 to make the final in third place, with Horigome sixth.
The skating was contested on ramps, rails and ledges on an undulating, unshaded stretch of concrete baking in 33 degrees Celsius heat near Tokyo Bay.
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