Olympics to launch skateboarding at Tokyo 2020

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has added five new sports, including skateboarding, to the 2020 games in Tokyo.

Invented by American surfers as a pastime in the 1950s, skateboarding is a now a multi-billion dollar sport.

Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Dallas, Texas.

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