She starred on a skateboard at the Paris Games,but Ruby Trew is just as at home on a surfboard. And she hopes to compete in both sports at Los Angeles in 2028.
Fresh from her Olympic debut,teenage skater Chloe Covell is back in Australia for the Sydney leg of the Street League Skateboarding.
For adults,starting a new hobby can be a daunting task. This is why you should make the leap,as told by three people who have done the same.
Australian Arisa Trew triumphed with a gold medal at the Paris Olympics,but the journey for girls in skateboarding isn’t straightforward,as a new film shows.
My enormous head bursts with patriotic pride when I look at the medal ladder.
Mark it down in the record books:this was the greatest day at the greatest Games in Australian Olympic history. It was a golden blur.
At 21,Keegan Palmer is a two-time Olympic skateboarding champion,but the “younger generation” is nipping at his heels.
The first era of tween medallists ended in 1936. The second began three years ago in Tokyo with skateboarding,which on Wednesday celebrated a 14-year-old champion.
Arisa Trew was born in 2010. By winning gold in Paris,she just beat a 68-year-old record,set when a teenager won a swimming relay with Dawn Fraser.
Skateboarding used to be known for its sexist,masculine culture. Now,it’s dominated by teenaged girls,who might be “coached” by their dads but run the show.
Chloe Covell is too young to sleep in the athletes’ village,and yet she’s a key part of one of the biggest skateboarding teams in Paris.