Skateboarding has made its Olympic debut in Tokyo along with surfing, sport climbing and karate. National skateboarding champion Roxana Howlett, aged 11, told BBC Radio 5 Live what people new to ...

Breaking debuted at the Paris Summer Games, while sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding made their second Olympic appearances. Medals were the top goal at the 2024 Olympics, but what else came ...

Skateboarding was added to the Tokyo Games lineup as part of a wider initiative to grow the Olympics' appeal with younger audiences, by way of sports that are particularly popular in the host nation.

In speed climbing, a vertical racing event that made its ... marking China's best-ever Olympic skateboarding result. This feat came less than a year after the wunderkind became China's youngest ...

The Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist is back for his second Olympics. Eaton, 23, has cemented himself as skateboarding's top dual threat. Although he attempted to qualify in both street and park for ...

Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. The 900—the skateboarding trick that catapulted Tony Hawk to fame and vert skateboarding into the mainstream in 1999 ...

A pair of 13-year-olds Momiji Nishiya (JPN, right) and Rayssa Leal (BRA, left) took the top-two spots in the women's skateboard street contest when the sport debuted at the Tokyo Olympics.

A young Coco Yoshizawa casually watched the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 on TV until she came across the new street skateboarding competition. “I didn’t even know it was an Olympic sport until ...