In a field consisting entirely of teenagers, World No. 1 and No. 2 Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan were going neck and neck to claim the Olympic title in their debut. Fourteen-year-old Yoshizawa ...

PARIS -- Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan took gold and silver in women's street skateboarding at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, and Rayssa Leal of Brazil got bronze to win her second medal in ...

PARIS--Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama took gold and silver for Japan in women's street skateboarding at the Paris Olympics on Sunday and Rayssa Leal of Brazil got bronze to win her second medal in ...

Teenagers ruled over the women's skateboard street final. World No. 1 and 2, Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan, repeated their world ranking order on the Olympic podium. Both Japanese women earned ...

Clanuwat initially connected with Akama while researching. Clanuwat arrived in Japan in 2008 as a Japanese government-sponsored international student with the aim of researching classical literature.