Balancing life as an elite sportsperson as well as completing your final year of school is already hard enough, and for Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder Kipp Smith, a global pandemic made things even more challenging.
Olympic Games
Success in Life after Sport
Freestyle aerial skiing is one of the most spectacular sports ever invented: something like diving, something like gymnastics, something like throwing yourself off a cliff.
Instagram Takeover: Alec Danelutti
BMX Freestyle is an adrenaline-fuelled form of cycling that sees cyclists perform a series of outrageous tricks and jumps, taking place over a series of ramps and large obstacles, all set up within a 30mx50m park. Athletes complete two one-minute runs each, looking to impress judges with the difficulty, originality, style, flow, risk, height and execution of their tricks.
14 Aussie Skaters pushing toward Tokyo
The Tokyo Olympics has been delayed by an entire year, fraught with false starts, cancelled qualifying events and endless confusion from World Skate, but its finally set to go ahead on July 23, 2021. This means that skateboarding will finally make its Olympic debut. So, in an era of travel restrictions, quarantines and vaccinations, hows it all going to unfold for the Australians looking to qualify for Tokyo Heres what we know so far.