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Skateboarding

June 2022

  • A boy rides a BMX bike in Rom skatepark, which became Grade 11 listed in 2014.

    Hidden Histories
    Where to run wild: UK playgrounds and skateparks to visit

    From the first play street to a ‘junk playground’, there are many spaces old and new that offer kids the chance to let off steam

March 2022

  • Exterior of F51, with the words 'The world’s first multi-storey skatepark' written on the righthand side

    F51 skatepark, Folkestone, review – boarding house gives the seaside a kickflip

  • Harmonie Bataka, 27, a skateboarder and skateboarding tutor, practises skateboarding on streets in her neighbourhood in Tema, Ghana. Harmonie quit her job last year to pursue the sport full time, to the dismay of friends and family.

    From the agencies
    Meet the skateboarding girls of Accra – in pictures

  • ‘A gamechanger’ … a skater enjoys a bowl at F51.

    ‘A wild triple-decker sandwich’: world’s first multistorey skatepark lands in Folkestone

  • skateboard jump

    Wiltshire road becomes a skate park after it cracks and buckles

February 2022

  • A tour guide points out a Rift Valley exposing the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland September 16, 2019. Picture taken September 16, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

    Skateboarder and social media star Josh Neuman, 22, dies in Iceland plane crash

  • ImillaSkate are a female skateboarding team from Cochabamba.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

  • A scene from Jackass Forever

    The joy of Jackass is not only its stunts, but the gang’s enduring friendship

    Hannah Strong
  • Adventure Time vibe … a screenshot of OlliOlli World.

    OlliOlli World: the game that captures the vibrant soul of skateboarding culture

January 2022

  • Neil Garrett on a board

    Skateboarding in middle age: ‘It helps me switch off’

  • Allen Sarlo, one of the original Z-Boy skateboard and surf team members, skates in the parking lot at the ‘Surfrider’ Malibu Lagoon state beach in June 2021 in California.

    Tell us: share your photos and experiences of skateboarding in middle age

December 2021

  • Sky Brown

    Sky Brown, Jude Bellingham and Ellie Challis make up Young Spoty shortlist

    Young skateboarder, footballer and para-swimmer form the three-strong shortlist for the Young Sports Personality of the Year award

September 2021

  • Jonathan Brownlee, Alex Yee, Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown celebrate after winning the inaugural triathlon mixed team relay gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Odaiba Marine Park.

    Sporting glory on hold as clubs struggle to cash in on GB’s Olympic success

    Funding, facilities and the lockdown hangover take toll on recruitment despite Tokyo uplift

August 2021

  • Simone Biles; Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Barshim; Elaine Thompson-Herah

    Highs, lows and burritos: the Guardian’s standout Tokyo moments

  • A skateboarder on the half-pipe at Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire.

    North Yorkshire town in row over battle to save skatepark

  • A scooter rider practises at Rush.

    Dreams set to crash as young Olympians’ skatepark closes

  • Kokona Hiraki, 12, skateboarding

    Tokyo diary: so much for the ‘good news Games’

  • Top 10 moments of the Tokyo Games

  • Sky Brown helps ramp up UK girls’ interest in skateboarding

  • The Guardian picture essay
    To Balance is Trust: photographing women and non-binary skateboarders

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