Skateboarding: Yuto Horigome makes shock early exit at Olympic qualifiers

Yuto Horigome, the Tokyo Olympics men's street skateboarding champion, suffered a huge blow Thursday in his bid to reach this summer's Paris Games by making an early exit during a qualifier series meet in Shanghai.Horigome was 17th in the preliminary round in Shanghai with 81.88 points, missing the 16-skater semifinal round by 0.07.Currently seventh in the world rankings, Horigome ranks fourth highest among Japanese. Only the top three from any country can qualify for Paris."I couldn't skate all that well," said the dejected 25-year-old, who landed all his tricks with his first run but stil…READ FULL ARTICLE