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Sporting Life: With blue hair and a ukelele, skateboarding makes sizzling history at the Olympics

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Sky Brown competes during the Skateboarding Women's Park Final on Aug 1, 2021.

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TOKYO - A stylish sub-culture whizzed into a corporate Games on Wednesday (Aug 4) and the result was magic and mayhem. Skateboarding bronze medallist Sky Brown, who is 13 and "stoked", is asked in the mixed zone what Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, told her.
Her answer is an instant classic.
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