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i still where i used to be able to do it with my family, my comments, my little sister's escape order to on this. that was really cool then, and now i see skateboarding is simply a sport in which there are no rules. and you're kind of free and good ideas of us and fries. icon lilies to fuzzy us, became the youngest sports woman in german olympic history to make the national team a natural born border previous, irked him from yard lilies 15 now and has already been in the squads since 2019. all this order is still gosh, and by olivia, she was at the tokyo games and his way up there among the world's best buy and baker soon, but informed cummin's arm. at 1st it was primarily about the fun rather than competing as like amazon i started getting better and better than was and when i became german champion there is no beating me best in germany. second that the

european championships answered at the world championships all while still in her teens. and now she's looking forward to her next olympics. although there's 1st the mind a matter of securing qualification. the goal is to conduct the biggest contest is the world championship in real button view. also because it's the most important meets when it comes to qualifying for parallel prize, you get fuel event through a police ah, up out of the subway and straight on to her board to the skate park. lily has joined to other german olympic hopefuls for training in sweden. why here in my more unlike in germany, there's a range of skate parks with conditions similar to those international meet. lily's father accompanied her on the journey north, but he's now gone back home. that's

a new situation for her. does that all of my lead time? not having my parents here means i have to find things out for myself. for me, there was a man often was that there is a lot more that i have to keep in mind tank and that i might forget to sag there's nobody to remind me of things or say, carry my backpack for me. i had to take care of everything myself alice. i alina mentioned most. this has only happened once before, but still lily's got used to going abroad for training or competitions. although she is still a minor over her and she's far from the only one in the skateboarding scene, the 2020 olympic champ from japan was just 13 when she won goals. germany's head coach, yoga and hormone had known lily for years. he used to be

a pro border and like lily lives in berlin, which is where he coaches this exceptional talent together with her dad oliver than orleans dar. this is of you in phone. when all is not there, it's definitely different than it is. she has a slightly different mindset of noses. i guess she feels more relax between local it's just her an offset because she's a bit more liberated from those family structures gone. speaking from a year, i just talked to her and figured it out for her to miss i unheard months of ada sides. i'm going for it, but feel scared and don't know whether to commit. it's clue this month for a few hours ovens and that is actually crucial here if you're really trying to get up here, which is why you're changing your twist for in as to sunday. but jumping really high, wind in will to right in the latest thing. rushed us the semester that concerned for not every come in on monday. you but i did at least make it this are not on

your right. the for from of the coach knows the next couple of years will be pivotal. oh yeah. says missing of braxton is got the trick. this luxury has grown up a bit and is gradually getting more strength of info for escaping has changed since we were in tokyo outside in our area here. she's made huge leaps forward since then, and there's a lot more to complicated market. she'll have more hot in her as and more pace to a see and but yes, with maria green, billionaires and saudi with the with meg finished her. hm. 2020. so skateboarding make it said name pick debut in tokyo, lily narrowly missed out on the final. but just being there gave her a massive confidence based and now her focus is very much on the world championships in rio de janeiro a few months from now. i lemon das, which whatever, if you finish in the top 3, you can relax a little, i know you've qualified for the olympics. that's what i am concentrating on right now in class or does hawkins moment out of my son concentrate on too much pressure

for a teenager. not in her case for lily, the fun factor and performance go hand in hand. as is the case with a lot of people in the skateboarding scene, although not everyone has such a relaxed set up, the i'd, sooner sooner than a kid student, there are kids who are pushed to make it big in the u. s. at van. and it was out as or but then they don't go to school and only get home schooling she will again, didn't homeschooling, become so negotiation and it's been, i'm not sure that's the right way there is to get big as vision mention even are these kids getting properly prepared to life in society outside skate boarding, gayden, ah, back in berlin lilies training program involves up to 4 sessions a week, but she's not neglecting her schooling. we join her and her little sister on their way home really has good grades which matters a lot to her family to and the,

the sport lamb cancer cancer. i have other athletes with completely different and really problematic set ups and oakland, i skaters or swimmers on where they're training every day at the age of 6 or 7 fine heighten over her m bentley leader lily trained once or twice away her. and that makes a difference in dover dust mother. so he does not want a sheep mom and her dad used to be a skateboarder himself. he 1st had lily on a board at the tender age of 12 months. oliver started coaching her when she was 5 1st once a week and then progressively more until her appearance at the 2020 olympics, which most people at her school didn't know about highly elses. or sometimes they ask about how she or i feel during the competitions and our but i don't find it annoying. no rule as mentioned. you know,

some teachers might know because the reading the news. but your average pupil has no idea who i am. and there's a similar lack of fast when it comes to training preparations with her father instead of rigid rules, the focus is more on creative freedom in he really no, i normally have a plan for which will occur to me when i go to bed. and while i'm sleeping alpha for you know, do you know the all think of this or that trick that we can do and was in for this? i mean it's not as if we have no plan, although there's certainly no leave wretched. alice planned the hardwood, as was a lover, is a quantity of trees or should if you normally schools over a quarter past 3 for some few and after eating something,

she starts her session at 5 without having had a break. always a good opportunity. so she has a little sleep while we're on the way there week, then we're busy until around 730. so we're back home at 8 or $830.00 more into wickland and gibbs and after dinner, it's time for homework. so she does have a pretty full schedule on commissions. ah, there's news just in from rio about disagreements between the world skate voting association and the prism in organizes the event is no longer either a world championship or an olympic qualifier. but for lily, it's about defending her title from 2021 in a country where the sport enjoys a different statist down on the co pick up on a skate. boating is far more popular than in europe. ah, nazareth of scale things. grades with

a brazilian audience because they just love this for and are so supportive. however good or bad you are. so it's always amazing to come here to see the house in his father. like some of them. some brazilian skate styles have instagram followings in the millions, the kind of appreciation that you don't see in europe, the line up in rio is absolutely top class. really isn't with misty mess. me for an investment. it's really the criminal. a crown is gotten in with the women in particular, the level is really shut up over the past year. so missouri extreme, i hope you can see things developing on practically a week by week basis. he might, in less annoyance. she, it's easy to forget that competitors, like millions, still essentially kids making the presence of their parents all the more important drowsy or not. so yoga her age makes the organizational so i just as important what she was was i don't have his own making sure she gets 2 or 3 hot meals a day. that there's enough money gave wagner,

and that she makes it to training on time. and it doesn't, frankly, soon as i should reach this year, i'm sure she's here with the german team. they're all adults and aren't necessarily responsive to the needs of the 15 year old. so in bettendorf, deborah officer at ovens to yeah, yeah. and i rio turns out to be challenging in various ways. in addition to seemingly incessant rain, the training runs keep getting postponed. often till late in the evening classes, lily had a high temperature even before leaving germany. but she did then get off to a good start. one run last was 45 seconds with skate is rated by speed, creativity. the difficulty delivery an range of tricks. and there are accounts with lilly is known for her stealing nerves. ah, the trials and tribulations don't seem to get to her except then a brief but faithful lapse of concentration.

ah, perhaps it was all a bit too much for the youngster. with the might of tea, my teammates were all in hospital after getting injured, so the mood was a bit down and i was already sick anyway and got slammed on the day of the contest . i saw there were a lot of factors against me and i had to put in my absolute safety run woman up. so still finishing intent was way more than i imagined with deemed seen. and so this was he wants to conduct center and there weren't any qualification points on the line this time anyway. although for lily, it's not just about the indian picks language. i'm not aiming for one particular contest the student that called to us as a sure the olympics are probably the biggest thing out there and so does all of us . but i just want to carry on skating well together with my friends going from contest to contest and maybe some day turning pro pro skater, nevada on, on perhaps prize money and sponsorship deals will mean i can earn a living for

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