Tony Hawk : « Faire entrer le skateboard half-pipe aux Jeux Olympiques » - Skateboard - JO - Vidéo Dailymotion

L'Équipe

La star américaine de skateboard milite pour l’intégration de la « vert » aux Jeux Olympiques. Dans un entretien accordé à L’Équipe, il explique pourquoi la discipline mérite sa place à Los Angeles 2028.

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00:00I am doing everything I can to try to get vert half-pipe skating added to the Olympics, yes.

00:05Because I think that vert skating is a discipline that's been overlooked in the last 10 years,

00:11and it's only gotten better.

00:13It's much more advanced in terms of aerial tricks, in terms of technique, than park skating.

00:21And I mean that, I don't mean disrespect, I just mean that when you're looking at what's happening on vert,

00:27people are doing 1080s on vert, the most we've ever seen anybody spin in a park event is a 540.

00:34So I feel like vert deserves to be on that same level as park skating.

00:39I mean, I created an event, a vert alert, that we do every year, now we're doing our fifth year,

00:44and when we did that, it was the only vert event of the year.

00:48Now there are five, six events each year, and some that are included in the World Cup skating.

00:57So, I feel like something's happening.

00:59What do you think of skateboarding being added to the Olympic Games?

01:03I think it's long overdue.

01:05I think that skateboarding has been there for a long time.

01:09It had all of the elements of competition, of international participation,

01:16and I think that at some point the Olympics needed skateboarding more than skateboarding in the Olympics.

01:22What is the sport on the Olympics?

Tony Hawk : « Faire entrer le skateboard half-pipe aux Jeux Olympiques » - Skateboard - JO

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