Brock Batty, 17, represented Australia as a trampolinist at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Whilst in the French capital he met Australian skateboarder, Keefer Wilson, 17. The pair returned to Melbourne with grand Olympic ambitions and an unexpected bond.
Professional skateboarding siblings set to compete at 2023 World Skateboarding Tour in Argentina this week.
The Australian Olympic Committee has named two Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holders in the Australian Olympic Skateboarding Team for Tokyo, as the sport gets set to make its debut.
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.