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TOKYO: After more than two weeks of awesome sporting action, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics came to a spectacular conclusion as the fire in the cauldron was extinguished at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium tonight and Tokyo passed the baton to 2024 host city - Paris. Held in a new normal, with…

jpg "For me personally, skateboarding will always be less about the industry and more of an art form and lifestyle." Posted on August 7, 2021, at 1:01 p.m. ET Lanna Apisukh believes everyone should skateboard. The New York–based photographer has spent the past five years taking images of skateboarders she…

TOKYO —  On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Tokyo, a few disappointed skateboarders hung about outside the sealed-off grounds of Komazawa Skate Park, boards in hand. Some were regulars, there to continue working out tricks they’d long been practicing. Others were first-timers, inspired by Japan’s dominance at skateboarding’s Olympic debut on…

Skateboarding’s second Olympic event, the park contest, wrapped up Thursday in Tokyo, with few of the favored competitors making it to the podium. In the women’s contest, two Japanese women and a half-Japanese skater riding for Great Britain took medals — none of them old enough to drink in a…

Teen and tween skaters from Japan and Britain soared to victory in the women’s park competition on Wednesday, while 18-year-old Australian Keegan Palmer claimed gold in the men’s contest on Thursday. Much like in the street skateboarding contest, the women’s park winners were all under the age of 20, with…

AP Photo/Ben Curtis Australian Keegan Palmer's final run, worthy of a massive 95.83 score, won him the gold medal. But he also had the second-best score on the night, putting together a 94.04 on his opening run that also would have also been enough to take home gold.  Olympics @OlympicsKeegan Palmer is…

Cory Juneau, the No. 2 ranked park skater in the world, went from making the finals by less than a point to becoming a medalist by less than a point in the first Olympic competition in the history of his event. The San Diego native found himself facing elimination going…

12.01am BST 00:01 Men’s 50km walk: Tomala has increased his lead, but we’re not getting a time or distance on it. But with that, I’m going to bid you farewell because tomorrow’s blog is here; Tom Lutz will get that away and take in the end of this race. Ta-ra!…

The Tokyo Olympics has seen a string of new action sports introduced for the first time. Viewers have got to see the debuts of skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing, 3X3 basketball and freestyle BMX, among others. The introduction of the events may have not impressed some Olympic traditionalists, but the games…

Australian Kieran Woolley crashes into cameraman during park skateboarding run at Olympics  msnNOWRead More