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.
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.
Three years ago, Yuto Horigome stood atop the podium for the men's skateboard street competition at the Tokyo Games, where the sport was welcomed into the Olympic fold. Only a few weeks later ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport ...
Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is still keeping busy around the sport these days. As athletes prepare to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, skateboarders will participate in the summer ...
The skateboarding icon posted a selfie alongside Macdonald with the Olympic rings in the background ... "I watched him from afar modify (compromise) his vertical skill set to the smaller ...