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Orapan suffers blow to pocket, Olympic hopes in balance after Asian event gets cut
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Thailand's Orapan Tongkong, 22, doing her tricks on Thursday at Somerset Skatepark, where the Asian Street Skateboarding Championship was supposed to be held. She is one of the foreign skaters affected by the cancellation of the event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Two weeks before she was supposed to fly to Singapore to compete in the Asian Street Skateboarding Championship, Thai skateboarder Orapan Tongkong was notified by her country's federation that funding for the rest of the season would be cut because of the coronavirus pandemic.
With a spot at this year's Olympics within reach, Orapan was determined to find a way to complete the final five qualifying events - in Singapore, Las Vegas, Portugal, Long Beach and London.
