Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Skateboarding - Women's Park - Preliminary Round - Ariake Urban Sports Park - Tokyo, Japan - August 4, 2021. Misugu Okamoto of Japan in action REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
TOKYO (Reuters) -Teen skaters soared through the preliminaries of the women's park competition on Wednesday, with Japan's Misugu Okamoto and Britain's Sky Brown advancing to the finals in top spots as the discipline makes a lively debut at the Tokyo Olympics.
Okamoto, 15, will enter the finals at first place with a high score of 58.51 after she showed off three outstanding runs landing three 540s, which she capped with a flip indie in her final ride.
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