For Keegan Palmer, the interviews and media appearances have all started to blur into one. It sounds exhausting, but that’s inevitably what happens after you become the first guy in history to win an Olympic gold medal for park skateboarding. At the Tokyo Games, Keegan scored a 95.83 in his final run, putting him way ahead of the next best-placed skaters, Pedro Barros and Cory Juneau. It was an insane 45-second succession of tricks, which included a kickflip body varial 540, earning him Australia’s first and only gold medal for Olympic skateboarding. It was an incredible feat, especially considering he’s only 18 years old.
Keegan later found himself in a press conference alongside Pedro and Cory, where the Japanese media were asking the other two medallists how it felt getting beaten by a little kid. Keegan laughs while recounting this story, but says he can’t remember their answers because he did eight hours of interviews that day. Eight hours! It’s no wonder they’re all blurring into one. Everybody seems to want a piece of Keegs at the moment, from talk show hosts flogging words to death like “sick” and “gnarly” to articles in outlets like the New York Times, the BBC and The Guardian.
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