Asia Lanzi, ‘excited for her skate debut in Tokyo, never say never for a medal’

“The emotion is really great and I’m also getting a little anxious because I know I’m about to start this adventure at the Tokyo Games, and it’s all real, before I had to realize a bit because I didn’t know what to expect and now seeing the other kids’ stories I’m getting excited but I try not to think about it too much because I know the more I get upset the worse it is. It was always my dream when I was a child, and now I can really live it. ” These are the words of Asia Lanzi, the 19-year-old Bolognese champion competing in the Tokyo Olympic Games in street skateboarding, at Adnkronos. Skateboarding will make its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with the competition taking place at Ariake Urban Sports Park. “It is fantastic to be with great athletes of all disciplines, athletes that you could only admire on TV or on social networks and now you are next to them, you eat with them, it is really beautiful”, explains the blue skater who won at the world championships. skateboard di Roma the points needed to enter the top 20 of the ranking in the street specialty and consequently the pass to compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games. “Goal in Tokyo? My main goal is to give the best of myself because I know that reaching a medal is very difficult, but never say never …”, underlines the blue confident for the race. Armored Olympics doesn’t worry her. “I think that being in Japan everything will be taken care of in the smallest details, they will be very meticulous about everything, they will make us respect every rule, we will not be able to go wrong on anything, it will be a very strict Olympics”, adds Asia Lanzi who says about the Skate Park: ” We had only seen a few pictures before we left, it’s very big and it looks really nice. “