JO 2024 – Skate (H) : Horigome conserve son titre olympique

Comme à Tokyo, le Japonais Yuto Horigome a remporté la médaille d’or lors des épreuves de skateboard street des Jeux olympiques de Paris à La Concorde lundi, lors d’une finale sans Français, tous éliminés lors des qualifications.

Désormais double champion olympique, le skater de 25 ans, originaire de Tokyo et résidant aux Etats-Unis, a de nouveau montré à des milliers de spectateurs réunis sous un soleil de plomb à La Concorde, qu’il était l’empereur de sa jeune discipline avec un score de 281,14 points. La finale du jour, en contrebas de l’Obélisque de Louxor, a vite tourné au duel entre Japonais et Américains : Horigome et Sora Shirai, champion du monde en titre, talonnant aux scores après leurs deux runs Jagger Eaton (2e au final) et Nyjah Huston (3e). Mais lors des « best tricks », où les skaters proposent cinq figures uniques aux juges, Yuto Horigome, qui a donné son nom à plusieurs figures qu’il est le seul à pouvoir réaliser, a repris le dessus pour s’imposer sur le fil grâce à un dernier score monstrueux (97,08).

Après le doublé dimanche de Coco Yoshizawa et Liz Akama, en or et argent chez les filles, le Japon a donc continué sa razzia sur le skateboard, sport qu’il avait déjà dominé à Tokyo, et pourrait également s’imposer en park la semaine prochaine.

Du côté des Français, ni le favori Aurélien Giraud (16e), ni Vincent Milou (9e) et Joseph Garbaccio (20e) n’avaient réussi à valider leur ticket pour la finale quelques heures plus tôt, passant à côté de leurs séries de qualification.

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