Thirteen-year-old Momiji Nishiya completed a historic home double for the hosts by winning the first women’s Olympic skateboarding title - in the women's street event - a day after the victory of her compatriot Yuto Horigome.
Street League Skateboarding (SLS) has announced a three-leg 2021 Championship Tour in the United States, which will shortly follow the sport's Olympic debut and aims to harness increased interest in skateboarding.
Local hero Yuto Horigome earned Japan’s third Olympic gold medal of Tokyo 2020 as he became the first Olympic skateboarding champion.
Multiple champion Nyjah Huston of the United States and Japan’s world champion Horigome Yuto will be the main focus of attention when skateboarding makes its Olympic debut tomorrow at the Ariake Urban Sports Park here.
Britain's 12-year-old skateboarding prodigy Sky Brown is set to become the youngest Summer Olympian in the nation's history, after being officially named in the skateboarding squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
World Skate has announced the 80 skateboarders that have qualified for the rearranged Olympics n Tokyo, when the sport will make debut in the Games, following the final qualifying events.
Japan’s Yuto Horigome and Aori Nishimura qualified for the re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo next month in style by winning the respective men's and women's titles at the Street Skateboarding World Championships in Rome.
United States’ Nyjah Huston topped the men’s semi-final standings at the Street Skateboarding World Championships in Rome.
Brazilian teenager Rayssa Leal produced the best performance in the women’s semi-finals at the Street Skateboarding World Championships which is doubling up as a Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifier.
Tokyo 2020 qualification as well as gold medals will be up for grabs when Rome hosts the Street Skateboarding World Championships this week.
Australia's skateboarders were forced to miss the weekend's Dew Tour event in Des Moines, which offered Olympic qualification points, after members of the team tested positive for COVID-19.
Rome has been chosen to host the Street Skateboarding World Championships, which will act as a qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Twenty athletes are due to take part in the latest Ready Steady Tokyo test for the Olympics tomorrow, this time in skateboarding.
World Skate has announced a four-year agreement with the Mediapro Group, which is expected to develop and market the governing body’s international events.
Designs for the courses on which skateboarding will make its Olympic debut have been released by the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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