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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…

Bon voyage, PH Olympians: Bring home the bacon! As our Filipino Olympians leave today to compete in the summer games that will open in Tokyo on July 23, we join the Filipino nation in bidding them Godspeed! Despite having been postponed for a year — and over and above the…

WHEN COMPETITIVE street skateboarding debuts in Tokyo, the judges will score the athletes based on the difficulty of their tricks (performed within a time limit) as well as originality, speed, and height. The focus is on the tricks—aerials, slides, and grinds on and off benches, walls, slopes, handrails, and stairs.…

Lo-fi vibes and skating Some skateboarding sims have lots of goals and unlocks, but one upcoming minimalist skateboard game is just looking to create a good vibe. The Ramp is a new game from Paul Schnepf, a co-creator of Islanders and Superflight, and it wants to just capture the thrill of skateboarding. The Ramp hits…

“When I was very young, I was like, ‘oh, I’m a boy. I just am,’” Leo Baker recalls of his childhood. For years, Baker tells TIME, he put questions about his gender on hold as he grew a successful career as a skateboarder, going on to win a series of…

While the Olympic Games have been taking place for over 100 years, they haven’t always looked the same. New Olympic sports, events, and medal opportunities have been added and removed over the years of the competition—and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be no different. The competition—which is scheduled to kick…

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Evolve Skateboards make electric skateboards and have just launched the Hadean Series, with 4x times more performance than its predecessor the GTR series which launched back in 2019. There’s now 37% more battery capacity and a crazy top speed of 50km/h, double what’s found in electric scooters and eBikes. The…