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How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan

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How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan

How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan

As skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo, Japan’s home team is gunning for gold.

CNN’s Blake Essig speaks with the Osaka Daggers, a cutting-edge street skateboarding crew, to trace the country’s skateboarding origins and explores how it’s gaining in popularity as it prepares to make a splash at the Summer Games.


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