Australian Kieran Woolley crashes into cameraman during park skateboarding run at Olympics
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TOKYO — Park skateboarding comes with its fair share of wipeouts. In the Tokyo Olympics prelims, one came for the leader and a cameraman.
Australia’s Kieran Woolley was finishing a big run when he went to ride a rail atop the bowl. It’s not clear how he meant to come out of it, because atop the course he collided with a cameraman from the Olympic Broadcasting Services.
On the replay, it showed Woolley’s helmet colliding with the camera lens before the cameraman’s feed come into frame.
Both appeared to be unharmed and, thankfully for Woolley, it didn’t seem to matter.
He scored an 82.69 to take the overall lead during the third preliminary heat.
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