Courageous despite plaster arm: Skateboarder Edtmayer missed Park Final

Under the motto "It's all" Skateboarder Tyler Edtmayer has fulfilled his Olympic dream despite a broken arm. The 20-year-old delivered a courageous performance despite pain in the left arm, but for the Olympic final of the best eight park riders, it was not enough. Edtmayer landed with 61.78 points on the 15th rank of a total of 20 start.

"I enjoyed a big stone from the heart, it was an extremely hard week for me, especially mentally," said Edtmayer: "I am also more than satisfied with the points." Really megacool. " The German champion from the Bavarian Inningen had broken his left spoke in his first training on the huge Olympic plant.

First, Edtmayer had started with a solid run, the second run he had to stop a trick and dropped control into the Bowl. "I was hesitant and was a bit scared, because I was not allowed to fall on my arm again. I had really had a problem," Edtmayer said. In the last run he increased the risk and improved slightly.

The finale in the Ariake Urban Sports Park takes place at noon at very hot and sacrificial conditions. On Wednesday, teenager Lilly Stoephasius as ninth had just missed the final of the park drivers. Both Edtmayer and the 14-year-old Stoephasius, according to their Olympic debut in Tokyo, have the upcoming games in Paris 2024 firmly in view.

Skateboard: Edtmayer calls great skate park in Germany

Edtmayer is anything but satisfied with the German skate parks and hopes for significant improvements in the infrastructure. "It's very sad that all Germany has not a facility where you can prepare yourself on Olympia," he said after his 15th place. "Hopefully there are a few cities through Olympics and invest a little money."

Edtmayer lives in Bad Tölz and must drive a little hour over the border to Austria for his training. In Germany, although "some money already taken into the hand, but people do not really know what they do," explained the German Master. After his return from Tokyo he will "go to my city and ask if that can help me something".

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In the meantime, the border between Germany and Austria was blocked Coronabeding, for Edtmayer it was therefore "a depressive winter" without training sessions in the park. For preparation for the first Olympics of skateboard history, he has therefore traveled to the Swedish Malmö. "They have extremely good parks, as the city also deals with," said Edtmayer: "They are almost the main center for skateboarding in Europe."