Paris 2024 Olympic Games: calendar, date, location, history… Everything you need to know about street skateboarding

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Avant les Jeux Olympiques (26 juillet-11 août), découvrez le mode d’emploi de toutes les disciplines. Focus sur le skateboard street.

Origins

Street skateboarding made its Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2021. Appearing in the 1950s on the West Coast of the United States, in the wake of surfing, skateboarding is practiced on a wooden board with two pairs of wheels attached at the front and back. Skaters use them to move around and perform "tricks" (figures) in an urban environment or dedicated spaces (skateparks).

How it works ?

Street is a series of figures in an area reproducing urban furniture (ramps, stairs, rails, benches etc).

The competitors first complete two "runs" (passages) of 45 seconds. They are free to perform the number and type of figures of their choice. Their performance is rated out of 100 by five judges.

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These evaluate in particular the speed, height and originality of the route. The second part of the test consists of performing 5 "best tricks" (best tricks). Each skater offers a single trick of their choice each time they pass.

Two runs and five best tricks: out of these seven scores, the best run and the two best tricks are kept to calculate the total for each competitor and establish the ranking.

The competition

Number of competitors: 44 skaters (22 women and 22 men).

After a preliminary phase with the 22 athletes, the eight best ranked compete in the final.

The dates

Men: July 27

Women:July 28

The Olympic site

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An urban park built at Place de la Concorde, between the Tuileries garden and the Champs-Elysées, where BMX freestyle, breaking and basketball will also take place 3×3.

The expected stars

Long dominated by the United States, where the inventor of modern street Rodney Mullen was born, street skateboarding competitions have been taken by storm since the last Olympics by very young people riders from all over the world.

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At home in 2021, Japan placed two of its representatives on the top step of the podium with Yuto Horigome – currently 7th in the world – among men and the prodigy Nishiya Momiji, only 13 years old, among women. Horigome will once again be favorite in Paris.

The Californian Nyja Huston and the Brazilian Rayssa Leal could also win while the French skaters Vincent Milou, 4th in Tokyo, and Aurélien Giraud, 2023 world champion, are the two best chances of winning. tricolor medal.