TOKYO -- Alongside traditional favorites like track and field and gymnastics, the Tokyo Olympics are drawing global attention with new "urban sports," including skateboarding, sports climbing and BMX freestyle.
These sports are especially popular with young people and allow even teenage athletes to find sponsors and travel internationally -- without coaches hovering nearby. They have the potential to reshape the image of sports, whose "win at all costs" ethos and rigid hierarchies are a turnoff for many youth.
