Skate, baby Sky 'flies' but only up to bronze

In the new frontier of the Summer Olympics, if a 19-year-old girl wins the gold medal, it is possible to talk about the victory of an expert.

It happens in the skateboard that today awarded the title of the women's Park race to the Japanese Sakura Yosozumi.

Silver to compatriot Kokona Hiraki (12 days and 343 days), bronze to British Sky Brown who, despite competing at 13 years and 28 days, was one of the most anticipated protagonists of Tokyo 2020. In total, at Ariake Urban Sports Park, today it has been a podium for 44 years.

For Sky Brown a double record: she is the youngest athlete ever to have represented Great Britain in an Olympic Games competition and the youngest to have won a medal. Two firsts that would surely have escaped her if the Tokyo Olympics had taken place regularly last year, given that in training, in May 2020, she had a terrible accident in which she fractured several bones and skull: the helmet saved his life. "It was incredible, it seems like a dream to me," said the girl of a Japanese mother and an English father, who, born in Japan, chose the flag of Great Britain two years ago and who in Tokyo also wanted to compete in surfing. She only had to "settle" for skateboarding and an Olympic bronze won at 13 years and 28 days. It also remains the record that,when she was only ten, she was already sponsored by a multinational sportswear company, but despite the money she continues to skateboard because she has fun, even when she 'clashes' with the Japanese girls.