On August 4, Beijing time, the Tokyo Olympic Games once again appeared a magical scene. In the women's skate park competition, three little girls born in Japan won gold, silver and bronze medals. Among them, Sky Brown, who finished third, is a mixed racer, and her mother is from Japan.
In the past, once there were multiple players from the same country winning the top three, the Olympic Games would change the rules. Host Japan has too much of an advantage in skateboarding, which could be the last time the event will appear on the Olympic stage. Or, they will change the roster of participants, all skateboarding events, and the total number of participants in one team will be reduced.
On August 4, in the women's skate park competition, Japanese athletes 18-year-old Shizumi Sakura won the championship, and 12-year-old Japanese athletes Happy won the bronze medal.
Subsequently, the British media bottomed out, and 13-year-old bronze medalist Skye Brown was also born in Japan.
Unlike the other two, Skye is a mixed-race athlete. Her mother, Mieko, was a Japanese beauty and her father, Stu, was from England. Moreover, Skye is also an influencer. On social media, she has 1.1 million followers. Unlike other runners, British media reported that Skye learned how to skateboard through social media herself, and she herself did not have a skateboarding initiation coach.
Due to its technical skills and love of uploading videos, Skye has attracted a large number of skateboarding enthusiasts.
Skateboarding is a new project this year, and it is also a scoring system, and the host advantage is very large.
Skye was not only born in Japan, but also lived with her parents in Miyazaki City, Japan. She herself is skateboarding in her backyard. Although his father did not support his own competition, Skye's father was also a skateboarding enthusiast.
Skateboarding is a new sport added to the Olympic Games, and the two players of the host Team Japan are very strong. Skye is still a certain distance from them. Although they are the top players in the amateur group, the two Japanese players have undergone rigorous professional training. Skye, on the other hand, only went to California to train skateboarding after 2019.
But the Tokyo Olympics, for Skye, were home games. In the end, she finished third in the project with a score of 56.47.
Thus, the Olympic Games once again appeared in the situation where the winners of the three medals, gold, silver and bronze, were born in one place.
In the past, in the history of the Olympic Games, it has happened that three athletes born in the same place have won gold, silver and bronze medals. In order to prevent a single event from dominating, many sports have modified the rules of participation in the Olympic Games.
For example, in table tennis competitions, a team only sends 2 players to participate in singles matches, and the history of Chinese teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals in the past is gone forever.
Since the start of the skateboarding competition, the Japanese team has won 3 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal in 3 events. In addition, they also received 2 fourths. It can be said that in this project, they have a dominant level.
In order to prevent the Chinese team from winning more than 10 gold medals, the International Lifting Federation has constantly changed its rules. The number of female players has always been fixed at 4 people, and the number of male players can participate from multiple players to 6 to the current 4 players.
Skateboarding can also learn from weightlifting, reduce the total number of participants in a certain team, and let other teams compete for medals and even gold medals.