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Music and medals: U.S. skateboarder drops into Olympic bowl with an apt new song: 'Perfect Moment'

Music and medals: U.S. skateboarder drops into Olympic bowl with an apt new song: 'Perfect Moment'
It's called High Hopes. And that's my favorite song to warm up and to listen to when I'm warming up. So my main like fight song, what sometimes goes is um stronger by Kanye West via Daft Punk. And then I have *** song that I is like my walkout song I would say and um that's can't stop. By the way I talk to Peppers. Yeah, I listen to *** lot of Drake. No, honesty. Some G Herbo. I listen to *** lot of music scores. I listen to, I am here by Pink and Chant by Malmo. I think those are my songs. I listen to *** lot of rap music like Big 30 Future. *** lot of things that are not like, not safe for work. But yeah, just something to get the blood pumping, get the, get the anger going to be honest. So, yeah, I mean, today I listened to God did before and that was the last song I listened to before we, I took my headphones out and went in. So I guess today was, it was God did, but it could be different every day. Used to be my girl. But OJ si mean it literally during the warm up. So it, it, it could be anything to be honest. See, LA can say I'm *** legend. The Wesley Arms Una Banda, uh La Canion, ee Rua Alla e la Can la preo ante ante la Compion. I like to listen to like motivational type speakers. I've listened to like the um the Madden, the Madden 13 intro on there *** lot of times David Goins. OK. World's famous by Malcolm Mle. The world's famous, I would say circus and womanizer are like my two absolute favorite like pop songs. The time of the clown mix, chaps and clown uh YG Snoop Dogg. He was just here. Shout out Snoop Dogg, um Little veda, um Soulja boy.
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Music and medals: U.S. skateboarder drops into Olympic bowl with an apt new song: 'Perfect Moment'
Keep an eye out for Bryce Wettstein when she and other skateboarders drop into the Paris Olympics ' bowl: You can't miss her — she's likely to be the only one strumming a ukulele between runs.Yup, this 20-year-old both soars and sings. The San Diego native could emerge from the women's park competition Tuesday with a medal, new lyrics or both. In Paris, the now two-time Olympian (she was the best-placed American woman in the park, finishing sixth, when skateboarding made its Olympic debut in 2021 at the Tokyo Games ) has been musically whiling away her downtime. Editing on her phone, Wettstein is putting finishing touches to a music video to go with a song she wrote a couple of months before the Games. She called it "Perfect Moment " — which could be very fitting Tuesday, depending on how things go for her.Relate video above: Can you guess Olympians' warmup songs? World's top athletes share their favorite tunes"It reminds me so much of skateboarding, the Olympics," she said. "I love it. It's like a little song about everything, finding that perfect moment." The follow-up question was obvious: Would you mind playing it? "Sure ! Sure ! Yeah, I'd love to," she beamed. Out came the ukulele that Wettstein had slung over her shoulder. Sat on a curb, after training, outside the skatepark Paris has erected temporarily on Concorde Plaza — where French revolutionaries guillotined King Louis XVI and other royals — Wettstein started to strum. And time just stopped.She sings beautifully — her voice tinged with smokiness on lower notes, and crystalline sparkle up high. "A perfect moment lasts so it can be found," she sang.There was a reference to her other passion, too: "Later on in time, I skate by sidewalks I thought were new." She says much of the song came to her in one go — at the skate bowl she has at home, under a tree."I got the verse and then the chorus, and then the next part kind of came the next day," she said. "When you sing something, you know, you're like: 'That was it.' Like there's no going back. And it's just so magical."Wettstein the skateboarder, music is a performance-enhancer, too. She said she'll bring her ukulele with her for the Olympic competition."Music helps me take my mind off, honestly, the stress of anything," she said. "I always play music before I compete and things like that ... Sometimes I can't not play. It's right there, you know?"

Keep an eye out for Bryce Wettstein when she and other skateboarders drop into the Paris Olympics ' bowl: You can't miss her — she's likely to be the only one strumming a ukulele between runs.

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Yup, this 20-year-old both soars and sings. The San Diego native could emerge from the women's park competition Tuesday with a medal, new lyrics or both.

In Paris, the now two-time Olympian (she was the best-placed American woman in the park, finishing sixth, when skateboarding made its Olympic debut in 2021 at the Tokyo Games ) has been musically whiling away her downtime.

Editing on her phone, Wettstein is putting finishing touches to a music video to go with a song she wrote a couple of months before the Games. She called it "Perfect Moment " — which could be very fitting Tuesday, depending on how things go for her.

Relate video above: Can you guess Olympians' warmup songs? World's top athletes share their favorite tunes

"It reminds me so much of skateboarding, the Olympics," she said. "I love it. It's like a little song about everything, finding that perfect moment."

FILE - Bryce Wettstein, of the United States, performs during the women&apos&#x3B;s skateboard park practice session during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. The San Diego native could emerge from the women&apos&#x3B;s park competition with a medal, new lyrics or both. She&apos&#x3B;s liable to be the only one strumming a ukulele between runs. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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Bryce Wettstein, of the United States, performs during the women’s skateboard park practice session during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. The San Diego native could emerge from the women’s park competition with a medal, new lyrics or both. She’s liable to be the only one strumming a ukulele between runs. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

The follow-up question was obvious: Would you mind playing it?

"Sure ! Sure ! Yeah, I'd love to," she beamed.

Out came the ukulele that Wettstein had slung over her shoulder. Sat on a curb, after training, outside the skatepark Paris has erected temporarily on Concorde Plaza — where French revolutionaries guillotined King Louis XVI and other royals — Wettstein started to strum.

And time just stopped.

She sings beautifully — her voice tinged with smokiness on lower notes, and crystalline sparkle up high.

"A perfect moment lasts so it can be found," she sang.

There was a reference to her other passion, too: "Later on in time, I skate by sidewalks I thought were new."

She says much of the song came to her in one go — at the skate bowl she has at home, under a tree.

"I got the verse and then the chorus, and then the next part kind of came the next day," she said. "When you sing something, you know, you're like: 'That was it.' Like there's no going back. And it's just so magical."

Wettstein the skateboarder, music is a performance-enhancer, too. She said she'll bring her ukulele with her for the Olympic competition.

"Music helps me take my mind off, honestly, the stress of anything," she said.

"I always play music before I compete and things like that ... Sometimes I can't not play. It's right there, you know?"