ISF president Gary Ream led the initiative to make skateboarding an Olympic event at the Tokyo 2020 Games along with arguably the most recognizable and influential skateboarder from the U.S. Tony ...

Team GB’s very own Sky Brown had only just turned 13 when she won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and became Britain ... But a vast majority of skateboarding athletes are teenagers ...

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.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Skateboarding - Men's Street - Final - Ariake Urban Sports Park - Tokyo, Japan - July 25, 2021. Yuto Horigome of Japan in action. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Tim McFerran ...

The Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist is back for his second Olympics. Eaton, 23, has cemented himself as skateboarding's top dual threat ... The Florida native placed third at X Games in 2021 and, more ...

Riding the excitement created by a local gold medalist, the venues used for skateboarding and BMX events during the Tokyo Olympics are set ... which were held in 2021. But the Tokyo metropolitan ...

Making its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, Skateboarding is an essential part of street culture. Athletes will demonstrate their skills in a celebratory, festival-like atmosphere. They are free to ...

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 ...

the Brazilian skateboarder took home silver at the Tokyo Olympics. Leal, 13, came in second in the first Olympic women's street skateboarding event on Sunday. The impressive milestone came six ...

As with past Olympics, a Pride House has been set up at the 2021 Tokyo ... success,” he said. Skateboarding joins BMX freestyle in making its Olympic debut this year in Tokyo and skateboarder ...

After seeing 13-year-old Rayssa Leal from Brazil win silver in the first-ever street skateboarding competition at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Giovanna Alves Farias only had one wish: to start ...