Tony Hawk was born May 12, 1968. Tony is a professional skateboarder, considered the most influential skater in modern vertical skateboarding.[citation needed] He is credited with the invention of many aerial skateboard tricks including the Stalefish, Madonna, and McHawk, and over 80 others, but is most famous for being the first recorded skater to land the 900 (two and a half rotations—900°—in the air before landing back on the pipe) during the televised June 27, 1999 X Games, for which he received an enormous amount of attention.

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Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi was born July 12, 1971. Kristi is an American figure skater and the 1992 Olympic Champion in women’s singles. Yamaguchi also won two World Figure Skating Championships in 1991 and 1992 and a U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992. She won two national titles in 1989 and 1990 and one junior world title in 1988 as a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Yamaguchi was a local commentator on figure skating for NBC 11 during the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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