Skateboarding made its Olympics debut in Tokyo over the weekend, and Gen Z dominated the competition. The men's street medalists are in their 20s, but thrillingly, the women who took gold, silver and bronze are all teenagers. Even more impressive? Two of them are only 13.
Japan's Momiji Nishiya, 13, and Brazil's Rayssa Leal, also 13, finished first and second in their sport's debut event. In third place was Funa Nakayama of Japan, 16. The trio edged out a skatepark veteran roughly 20 years their senior, American Alexis Sablone, who's 34 and placed fourth. "For so long the female competition scene — I don’t want to say it was stagnant, but it wasn’t moving as fast," Sablone told The Washington Post. "In the last two years the [rising] level [of competition] has been incredible to see."
