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TOKYO (AP) — At the Tokyo Olympics, it’s best to distinguish salad grinds from stalefish. Not tasty Japanese delicacies, but choice morsels from the rich lexicon of skateboarding. The new Olympic sport — competition starts Sunday — comes with a language all of its own. For skaters, the jargon these…

The 2024 Summer Olympics may seem like they're ages away — after all, we still have to get through the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — but the Games have already been making headlines since France was confirmed as the host nation in 2017. We took the liberty of…

The team that revolutionized the sport of skateboarding in the 1970s may have been known as the Z-Boys, but they had one girl member: Peggy Oki. Her skating style, and that of the Z-Boys as a whole, was graceful, powerful, and unprecedented, emulating the effortless flow of a surfer on…

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After being delayed by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally taking place, with the opening ceremony scheduled for July 23. But even as many people around the world hope to use these Games to take a mental break from real-world anxieties and recapture some…

Just four years ago, Zhang Xin was a trainee cheerleader who had never ridden a skateboard. Now, she’s preparing to skate for China at the Tokyo Olympics. The 22-year-old, who will compete in the women’s park event, is one of two skateboarders representing Team China at the Games, which kick…

Photo: Jordan Calhoun When I committed to skateboarding in June, I had ambitions for it to last longer than my one-month Lifehacker Fitness Challenge. I mostly kept my goals to myself, though, as not to jinx my probability of getting through the month successfully. Even so, comments came in from…

The Tokyo Olympics will feature six new or returning sports, giving this year's Games a record 41 disciplines and 339 gold medals. Returning: Baseball, softballNew: Surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, karateThe backdrop: In 2014, the IOC gave organizing committees the ability to propose new sports for inclusion. Tokyo's committee was the…

In probably its biggest update ever, Agens and Snowman are introducing the bustling city of Tokyo in Skate City. This move comes at the perfect time as it is the first time that skateboarding is being introduced as an official sport in the Olympics, which are also taking place in…

Lizzie Armanto ascends a metal extension ladder, skateboard in hand, to the platform at the top of an indoor vert ramp. She perches, catlike, on the coping then drops in, sails across into a Backside Method Air—her body hovering some fourteen or so feet above the ground for a moment—and…