Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk tested out the new Olympic skate park in Tokyo’s waterfront, calling the sport’s adoption into the Games “surreal.”
Hawk, now 53 and father of four, said the Olympics would further help grow skateboarding’s profile and expose the sport to audiences that are new to it or refused to embrace it in the past.
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