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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

There's a whole lot going on every day at the Tokyo Olympics. Here, we'll keep you up-to-date with everything you need to know. Olympic story of the day: From edge of tragedy to edge of goldKaleigh Gilchrist and the rest of Team USA's women's water polo team are in the…

Recently, I've been skateboarding. I've been skating before starting work for the day, and I've skated once I'm all done. Unlike a fair share of my colleagues, I haven't picked up actual skateboarding during the pandemic - I've looked to videogames as wish-fulfilment for that, and my latest obsession is…

Gif: The Ramp I wrote about The Ramp a few weeks back when I thought it looked like a cool little skateboarding game, but I’m writing about it again now because it’s out and I’ve played it and it’s wonderful. Let’s set some expectations before we begin: The Ramp is…