Scenes from a new skate park in Lahore

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A new skate park opened earlier this year in a historic city park in Lahore, Pakistan. It's the first "international-level" skate park in the country, and is drawing interest in the sport. Betsy Joles takes us to the new skate park which is already forming a community of people from different backgrounds drawn together by the love of the sport.

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