Olympics to launch skateboarding at Tokyo 2020

Al Jazeera English 2016-08-04

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has added five new sports, including skateboarding, to the 2020 games in Tokyo. Invented by American surfers as a pastime in the 1950s, skateboarding is a now a multi-billion dollar sport.

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