Here's what you need to know about skateboarding at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did skateboarding become an Olympic sport? Skateboarding made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games in 2021. Hardcore ...

For decades skateboarders have tossed on a beat up pair of sneakers and hunted for their town's best skate spots. This month, however, eighty of the world's best skaters will don sleek Olympic ...

A pair of 13-year-olds Momiji Nishiya (JPN, right) and Rayssa Leal (BRA, left) took the top-two spots in the women's skateboard street contest when the sport debuted at the Tokyo Olympics. (Usa Today ...

Skateboarding has been around since the 1940s, and over the decades it has skyrocketed to a multi-billion-dollar industry. Always a popular activity for teenagers and young adults, the sport made its ...

PARIS — Americans Poe Pinson and Paige Heyn finished fifth and sixth, respectively, at the women’s street skateboarding final Sunday evening at the Paris Olympics at La Concorde, the best team finish ...

A 12-year-old from Thailand and two 14-year-old Aussie stars are competing. Skateboarding will make its return at the 2024 Paris Olympics, four years after the sport's debut at the Tokyo games, and, ...

PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - The historic Place de la Concorde marked its debut as an urban sports venue for the Paris Olympics on Sunday, drawing roaring crowds for the women’s skateboarding ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. "The Skateboarding Ethic and the Spirit of Anti-Capitalism." That was the title of an unusual paper presented at the annual ...