Australia will field the fourth-largest skateboard team heading to Paris behind the US, Brazil and Japan — while also including the youngest Olympian on the Australian team.
A nine-member Australian skateboard team, with competitors ranging in age from 14 to 34, has been announced for the Paris 2024 Olympics .
In the Park event, Keegan Palmer — reigning Olympic champion — and Kieran Woolley return for their second Games, while 14-year-old Arisa Trew and 15-year-old Ruby Trew both make their Olympic debut. Skateboarders Chloe Covell and Olivia Lovelace with their tickets to Paris as part of the Australian team launch for the 2024 Olympics in Gold Coast.The Street event focuses more on using an urban environment as a playground to do tricks on obstacles like stairs, ledges, curbs and handrails.
Australia's Olympic skateboarding team enters Paris with a wealth of international success, including Arisa Trew and Keegan Palmer both winning the Olympic Qualifying Series in June, and 14-year-old Covell being a 2023 World Championship silver medallist.Sports content to make you think... or allow you not to. A newsletter delivered each Saturday.This teen watched the Olympics, dreaming big.
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