Nyjah Huston, the American skater, failed to live up to expectations in Tokyo 2020.

What Huston got was seventh place. In the Olympics, that's a success for many athletes.

For Huston it was not.

Huston has a lot of eyes on him again. But he says he has learned from the experience.

was hard to handle," she says.Ver esta publicación en InstagramUna publicación compartida de JAH (@nyjah

)Huston comes into the Games with a good feeling, and won in two X Games competitions last month.

The second and final stop of the Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) begins this Thursday in Budapest with over 460 athletes competing to qualify for a spot in the Paris Olympics. The OQS is the International Olympic Committee’s new multi-sport festival-style series to determine which athletes will go on to represent their respective countries in BMX freestyle, breaking, climbing and skate. Its inaugural four-day event in Shanghai was attended by 45,000 spectators, including the IOC’s president, Thomas Bach, who praised the event’s organisers. 

won the men’s street and finished third in park in the last OQS, will compete alongside compatriot Nyjah

Huston for an Olympic berth.

Eaton rose a dramatic 10 places up the rankings into second after his Shanghai win, ahead of compatriot Huston

The Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) concluded yesterday with the world's top freestyle BMX riders, B-Boys and B-Girls, skateboarders, and sport climbers vying for a spot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 464 participants from 120 national federations gathered at Shanghai’s Huangpu Riverside Urban Park 16-19 May in the first of a two-part festival-style series.

Games (@Olympics) May 19, 2024Team USA was well-represented in skate with Chris Joslin in third and Nyjah

Huston fifth in the street, while Tate Carew won the men’s park event.

With the kickoff in China’s hippest city just a day away, Australian Logan Martin and Britain’s Charlotte Worthington headline the BMX freestyle competition, while Leonardo Veddriq, of Indonesia and Nonaka Miho, of Japan, are sport climbing’s main attraction for this inaugural two-part-series event.

American Nyjah Huston and Japan's reigning Olympic champion, Horigome Yuto, are also in the mix for medals

Others include Nyjah Huston, a six-time street world champion, and Jagger Eaton, the only athlete to

Nyjah Huston of the United States and Nishiya Momiji of Japan earned maximum ranking points on their

The qualifying event in the Olympic capital saw Huston score 275.94 overall as he won gold.His best run

Women1) Momiji Nishiya2) Yumeka Oda3) Paige HeynMen1) Nyjah Huston2) Toa Sasaki3) Giovanni ViannaFull

Liz Akama of Japan overcame fellow teenager Chloe Covell of Australia to secure the women’s title at the World Street Skateboarding Pro Tour event in Rome.

in the three previous tricks after registering 88.61 and 40.71 in the two runs to finish on 263.90.Nyjah

Huston of the United States proved too strong as he captured the men's crown ©World SkateAnother Japanese

completed the podium with 246.38 for the bronze medal.The men’s title was won by 28-year-old American Nyjah

Huston, who topped the standings with 276.51 points.The six-time world champion backed up his opening

Paris 2024 qualification places in the street discipline of skateboarding are on offer at the Street and Park World Championships in Sharjah.

respectively at Tokyo 2020, with Leal taking silver.The men's top five consists of the United States' Nyjah

Huston, France's Aurélien Giraud, Gustavo Ribeiro of Portugal, and Argentinian pair Matias Dell Olio

Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, and Italian capital Rome will host the next three World Skate qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Understanding signed between World Skate and the organisers," they wrote.In the 2022 edition of the Rome event Nyjah

Huston of the United States won the men's division while victory in the women's contest went to Tokyo

Funa Nakayama continued her fine form from the past two days at the World Street Skateboarding Pro Tour event in Rome, leading an all-Japanese podium in the women's event.

Yoshizawa of Japan and Chloe Covell of Australia.Pamela Rosa from Brazil finished eighth in the final.Nyjah Huston

claimed victory in the men's competition ©Getty ImagesAmerican skater Nyjah Huston held onto victory

Funa Nakayama was top of the women's standings again after finishing first in the quarter-finals, making her the skater to beat in tomorrow's final at the World Street Skateboarding Pro Tour event in Rome.

best run of the day of 90.05 and 92.30 for the best trick, finishing with a total of 262.50.American Nyjah

Huston pipped Olympic champion Yuto Horigome of Japan by 0.40 points for second, finishing with a combined

France's Aurélien Giraud and Japan's Funa Nakayama started their campaigns at the World Street Skateboarding Pro Tour in Rome by topping the standings in the men's and women's quarter-finals.

second-placed Canadian Micky Papa on 82.42.Mauro Iglesias of Argentina was third with 81.21 and American Nyjah

Huston was close behind on 81.06 in fourth.Completing the top five was Gustavo Ribeiro of Portugal on

Brazil's Pamela Rosa and Jagger Eaton of the United States were crowned the 2021 world champions today at the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Super Crown World Championships in Jacksonville.

three consecutive tricks to win the bronze medal with a score of 26.3 - just 0.1 in front of American Nyjah

Huston, who was below-par on the run and was not able to put in a third exceptional trick.Brazil's Kelvin

Brazilians Pamela Rosa and Lucas Rabelo topped a competitive day of qualifying at the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Super Crown World Championships to make it into tomorrow's finals in Jacksonville in Florida.

finished seventh.They join the already-qualified Gustavo Ribeiro of Portugal, the US' Alex Midler and Nyjah

Huston and Brazilian Felipe Gustavo in the final tomorrow.

Super Crown World Championships welcoming the best in the world including 2019 SLS world champions Nyjah

Huston and Pamela Rosa.

Teenager Rayssa Leal secured back-to-back wins on the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Championships Tour after triumphing at Lake Havasu in Arizona.

Rosa missed out on a podium finish, ending fourth on the same score as Nakayama.The United States’ Nyjah

Huston triumphed in the men's event, having led qualification with a score of 25.9.Huston impressed