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Get to know the world's best park skaters Jagger Eaton, Bryce Wettstein, Keegan Palmer, Sky Brown, Pedro Barros, Yndiara Asp, Danny Leon, Yosozumi Sakura, Jake Familton and many more as they compete in the lead up to Paris 2024 during the Olympic Qualifier, 2022 Skateboarding Park World Championships from the Aljada Skatepark in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

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The essence of these most unusual Olympic Games was perhaps best captured by the new sport of skateboarding. Paying little heed to gravity or traditional competitive hostilities, how these skaters lifted each other up, literally and figuratively, in Tokyo was an inspiration in perfect sync with its moment.
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TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 26:  Momiji Nishiya of Team Japan competes during the Women's Street Final on day three of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Urban Sports Park on July 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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Skateboarding brings the style (and smile) to Tokyo 

It was the mid-1980s, at the height of conservative South Africa, when a ten-year-old Dallas Oberholzer first picked up what he called the “plank on wheels.”
A group of boys barely into their teens embraced the new cultural phenomena, building backyard ramps and performing death-defying tricks in suburban Johannesburg. What

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 04: The 46-year-old Dallas Oberholzer of South Africa reaching his maiden Olympic Games in the men’s park skateboarding competition. (Photo by Team South Africa)

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South Africa’s 46-year-old skateboarder Dallas Oberholzer: From “mystical act” to Olympics for South Africa’s thrashing nomad

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