How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan

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How skateboarding went mainstream in Japan

As skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo, Japan's home team is gunning for gold. CNN's Blake Essig speaks with the Osaka Daggers, a cutting-edge street skateboarding crew, to trace the country's skateboarding origins and explores how it's gaining in popularity as it prepares to make a splash at the Summer Games.

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