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The new king of skateboarding worries he’s too old. He’s 21.

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Paris | Keegan Palmer is 21 years old. Having won Olympic gold in park skateboarding in both Tokyo – where it was introduced as an event – and Paris, he wants to push on to Los Angeles and Brisbane. But he’s worried he may already be over the hill.

“Definitely the goal would be to do Brisbane, just because it’s where I grew up, it’s where I learned how to skate,” he said.

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Hans van Leeuwen is international economy editor for The Telegraph UK. He was previously The Australian Financial Review’s Europe correspondent.

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