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- 1 2 Mercuri, Simona. "The List of Future Olympic Skateboarders is Official!!!". www.worldskate.org. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ "USA Skateboarding Olympic Team Announced". Transworld Skateboarding.
- ↑ Metcalfe, Jeff. "Mesa skateboarder Jagger Eaton named to first national team on path to 2020 Tokyo Olympics". Arizona Republic.
