Skateboarding is making its Olympic debut this year. The qualifiers for skate have been postponed to the end of May 2021, and we wanted to give you a preview of some of the skaters to be on the lookout for.
Brighton Zeuner started skating at age 4, began competing at age 8, and at age 13 became the youngest person to win an X Games Gold Medal. Now, at age 16, she is training to qualify for the Olympics this summer in Park Skateboarding.
Alex Sorgente and Zion Wright, both South Florida natives, have been dominant forces in Park Skateboarding and were added to the first-ever USA Skateboarding team in 2019.
Jagger Eaton is the youngest person to ever compete in an X Games and is the only skater in the world that will be competing to qualify in both Park and Street Skateboarding.
And lastly, Jamie Foy, the 2017 Skater of the Year, has created a skateboarding style of his own. He was named the captain of the US National Team for Street Skateboarding and will be competing in the qualifiers to make it to the 2021 Summer Olympics.
Zion Wright portrait at Red Bull Performance camp in Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA on March, 11 2021. Photo: Anthony Acosta / Red Bull Content Pool Jagger Eaton portrait at Red Bull Performance camp in Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA on March, 11 2021. Photo: Anthony Acosta / Red Bull Content Pool Jagger Eaton performs a frontside air at Red Bull Performance camp in Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA on March, 10 2021. Photo: Anthony Acosta / Red Bull Content Pool Zion Wright performs a stalefish at Red Bull Performance camp in Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA on March, 11 2021. Photo: Anthony Acosta / Red Bull Content Pool Brighton Zeuner poses for a portrait in Phoenix, AZ, USA on 22 October, 2020. Photo: Zorah Olivia / Red Bull Content Pool Jamie Foy does a backside 180 nose grind over the gap in while filming YOU GOOD? in Taiwan on April 12, 2019. Photo: Kenji Haruta / Red Bull Content Pool Alex Sorgente performs at the Red Bull Bowl Rippers in Marseille on August 18, 2019. Photo: Nicolas Jacquemin / Red Bull Content Pool Alex Sorgente is seen at the Munich Mash 2019 Red Bull Roller Coaster in Munich, Germany on June 28, 2019. Photo: Florian Hopfensperger / Red Bull Content Pool Brighton Zeuner does a lipslide at the Vans Park Series in Huntington Beach, CA, USA on 4 August, 2017. Photo: Anthony Acosta / Red Bull Content Pool
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