(5 Aug 2024)
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Paris – 3 August 2024
1. Various of 49-year-old South African Olympic skateboard athlete Dallas Oberholzer skates on busy Paris street next to the Olympic skateboarding venue
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dallas Oberholzer, South African Olympic skateboard athlete:
“It’s essential to have the elders amongst us, you know, because we paved the way. We did. And I don’t want to give it up to some kid that is, like, regimented in a gym and, yeah, it’s scary because skateboarding was always about the freedom and about the expression and the deviance of skateboarding, you know, and doing it your way.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dallas Oberholzer, South African Olympic skateboard athlete:
“I’d set my goals for Paris, and I realized that I needed to be headstrong. So, I chose to go the old ways and look for some ancient teacher plants. And I found that in the jungles of Peru.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dallas Oberholzer, South African Olympic skateboard athlete:
“I was there to prepare myself as a warrior mode. I was prepared to say to the shaman, like, get me ready, you know, like, I want to come to this next event full power. Like, what else can I do?…”
5. Various STILL images of Oberholzer performing during a men’s skateboard park practice session
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dallas Oberholzer, South African Olympic skateboard athlete:
“And when it’s the sendoff, basically, you get a sendoff. And I could feel myself, you know, like, just like ready. And I’ve since felt in many ways, like, injury free and just a lot stronger in my mind and possibly my body and my peers have all noticed my skateboarding is improving and that’s all I really want.”
7. Oberholzer putting on his shoes.
8. Close of grazes on Oberholzer’s left knee.
9. Oberholzer skates and falls on a busy Paris street next to the Olympic skateboarding venue, where he’ll compete Wednesday in the Olympic men’s part event.
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dallas Oberholzer, South African Olympic skateboard athlete:
“I see a badass falcon just folded up, ready to fly? Yeah. Supercharged.”
11. Oberholzer talking to a man who recognized him as an athlete and stopped to say hello and take a photo
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dallas Oberholzer, South African Olympic skateboard athlete:
“Mum’s coming. And like she says I got to have that one magic trick, and I’m still working out what it is. But pressure’s on. Like mom’s coming, with my sister. So that’s going to be incredible. You know, they couldn’t come at the last Olympics. And what a rad thing to have your mom come visit, like in Paris.”
13. Oberholzer skating on busy Paris street
14. Oberholzer walking away
STORYLINE:
Of the 10,500 athletes at the Paris Olympics, skateboarder Dallas Oberholzer is surely the only one to have crossed paths with dragons on his four-wheeled round-the-world odyssey to the 2024 Games.
The 49-year-old from South Africa had to go to the jungles of Peru to find them. There, under a shaman’s watchful eye, the grizzled traveler who also competed at the Tokyo Games that marked skateboarding’s Olympic debut, placing last in the men’s park event, tapped into the psychedelic powers of ayahuasca, a plant-based brew that indigenous peoples in Latin America have long used for healing and rituals.
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