Qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games skateboarding competitions is set to be based on ranking points gained from World Championships, the Olympic qualifier series, Pro Tour events, five-star events, and three-star events.

Olympic medallists Yuto Horigome, Rayssa Leal and Jagger Eaton have claimed the last golds of the X Games on the final day of competition at the Marine Stadium in Chiba in Japan.

The second day of the X Games in Chiba saw American Mitchie Brusco upset defending champion Gui Khury of Brazil to win the vert ramp with a sensational kickflip McTwist at the Marine Stadium.

The first day of the Summer X Games got underway in Chiba, Japan today.

Brazil’s teenage skateboarding sensation Rayssa Leal is set to return to Japan for the first time since claiming silver at last year’s Olympics in Tokyo when Chiba stages the X Games.

Jacksonville in the United States is set to host the inaugural stop of the 2022 Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Championship Tour as the four-event schedule has been released.

World Skate has finally decided to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its competitions, therefore expanding its previous decision to allow them to participate as neutrals.

Athletes from Russia and Belarus appear set to be able to compete in World Skate competitions as neutrals, but the organisation has vowed not to stage any events in the two countries.

The World Skate Executive Board has voted through amendments to the organisation's statutes, with one significant change being the establishment of one National Federation per country.

French Government Ministries have formed a group of experts to devise terms for use in breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing when the sports appear at Paris 2024.

Roberto Marotta has been re-elected secretary general of World Skate and is to be joined by a new assistant secretary general, Doris Gentile.

The finalists from the women's park skateboarding event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been recognised with a fair play award, after lifting the reigning world champion, Misugu Okamoto, following her crash at the Games.

Skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing are set to be added to the core Los Angeles 2028 Olympic programme - but boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon have been left off the list of guaranteed sports for the Games.

Italy’s Sabatino Aracu was confirmed as World Skate President at the organisation’s Congress in Rome today.