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East County News ServicePhoto: Jagger Eaton displays silver medal, via his Instagram post
July 31, 2024 (Paris) – Skateboard champion Jagger Eaton has become the first San Diego athlete to medal in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, winning a silver medal in the street competition. He is the first to win two Olympic medals for the U.S. in skateboarding.
“We want to win. We want to sweep the podium,” Eaton said of his fellow Team USA skateboarding competitors.
Eaton started skateboarding at age 4. At 11, he was the youngest to compete in the X Games. In 2016, he won a bronze medal at the X Games in street skateboarding, then became a celebrity, starting in a reality TV series on Nickelodeon called Jagger Eaton’s Mega Life.
In 2020, the first year that skateboarding was an Olympic sport, Eaton competed on a broken ankle and managed to win a bronze medal in street skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics. But later, he suffered more injuries, so took time off to recuperate.
He returned to San Diego, living in Encinitas, where he spent time at the beach relaxing until he began training for the Paris Olympics. “I don’t even have a social life, I haven’t had one for over a year,” he said, Fox 5 reported. “It’s just all about competing and performing.”
Now in 2024, he’s qualified for both street and park categories. In street skateboarding, the gold went to Japan’s Yuto Horigomme, while the bronze medal was awarded to Team USA’s Nyjah Huston.
After scoring 281.04 and taking silver in street skateboarding, Eaton is hoping for gold in the park skating competition.
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he's cute
love those curls. Congratulations Jagger. Thanks for taking a medal for Team USA.