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Nyjah Huston Proves Age Is Nothing but a Number (2006)

By the time Nyjah Huston was 18 years old, he already had won more prize money than any other skateboarder in history, including Tony Hawk. A lot of that has to do with the fact that he made his official X Games debut in 2006 at age 11, by far the youngest person ever to compete there. He did not win that first year, but he did become the youngest gold medalist in X Games Skateboard Street history just a few years later at age 16. Back in 2006 Huston was just a wiry kid with flowing dreadlocks, but he has blossomed into quite an entrepreneur and one of the sport’s most recognizable young stars. As an 11-year-old kid trying to find his away among the game’s greats, the sky was the limit for Huston. Many years later, it still is.

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