Skateboarding: Yuto Horigome wins street title at X Games, Shirai 3rd

Japan's Yuto Horigome won the skateboard street contest at the X Games in Minneapolis on Saturday with less than a year to go before the sport makes its debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.The 20-year-old Horigome showed off his Olympic form with an 89.00-point gold-medal score in the second of his three runs in the men's street final to claim his first X Games title.Two nollie 270 rail slides, one nose and one board, were the highlights of his effortless 45-second run.American superstar Nyjah Huston took silver with 88.00 and Japanese 17-year-old Sora Shirai rounded off the podium with 87.00.…READ FULL ARTICLE