“We need to cry, we need to talk, and we need to fakie 1080 at 12 years old in front of Tony Hawk!” “As men, we need to express ourselves,” the broadcaster said. As Khury wiped his happy tears on his oversized white T-shirt, Rogers praised the youngster for the display of emotion. “You landed a 1080,” yelled TV analyst Gary Rogers, “in front of Tony Hawk!” Rogers said this as if the second part of the equation were equally as epic as the first. He looked more surprised than anyone that he’d gone and pulled it off. He looked like the Tasmanian Devil, or like a figure skater doing one of those centrifugal-force spins at the center of the rink. Competing in the “Best Trick” event on a vertical ramp-basically a bigger, flatter version of a half-pipe-Khury zoomed back and forth and back again, flying up and down and up, and then coiled his body and absolutely went for it, spinning around three times in the air before he and his board returned to land. Last weekend at the X Games, down in Southern California, a 12-year-old named Gui Khury did something in competition that no other skateboarder had done before.
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