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A new skate park opening on George Street in New Haven is part of a larger project aimed at bringing communities together and celebrating the arts.

The Chicago-based froSkate is a skating group welcoming BIPOC, queer, trans and nonbinary skateboarders into the scene, teaching them and creating a safe space.

“A lot of us grew up skating alone, because we were the only ones who looked like us in the skate park.” Feeling that skateboarding was dominated by white men, skaters in Chicago formed the group froSkate. The group hosts meetups at local skate parks to welcome skaters with marginalized racial and gender identities into the scene. NBCLX Storyteller Jalyn...

Learn the basics of skateboarding, one of this year’s new Olympic sports! Follow along with Gabby Lucivero as she takes you step by step through the process, shares important safety tips, and of course, tries it out for herself!

Cory Juneau says it’s still “surreal” that he took home the bronze medal for park skateboarding from the Tokyo Olympics. As the 22-year-old San Diego native looks to the future, he stopped by NBCLX to look back at his experience — and attempted to show us how to do one of the trickiest kickflips he nailed in Tokyo.

Gus Kenworthy talks with legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk about the significance of skateboarding’s Olympic debut before trying out some new tricks on the board.

Team USA’s Cory Juneau won bronze in the first-ever Olympic men’s park skateboarding event. Australia’s Keegan Palmer took gold, and Brazil’s Pedro Barros took silver.

Here are five things to know about champion skateboarder, Zion Wright.

American Cory Juneau won bronze in the men’s park skateboarding event at the Tokyo Olympics.

Thirteen-year-old skateboarder Sky Brown of Great Britain won bronze in women’s park skateboarding. Team USA’s Bryce Wettstein finished in sixth place.

Youth ruled the skate park as 19-year-old Sakura Yosozumi took gold with Cocona Hiraki, 12, and Sky Brown, 13, close behind for silver and bronze, respectively.

Here are five things to know about Great Britain’s Olympic skater, Sky Brown.

Japan’s Kokona Hiraki and Great Britain’s Sky Brown made history in the women’s park skateboarding final at the Tokyo Olympics.

Skateboarding icon Tony Hawk is at the Tokyo Olympics, serving as a correspondent for the skateboarding events. He shares what it’s like to finally see his sport make its debut on the world’s biggest sports stage.

As the Olympics continues to add emerging sports to its program, the Tokyo Games will feature several brand-new sports

The age-range of competitors in skateboarding’s Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games is remarkably broad and testifies to the sport’s inclusivity

Jagger Eaton didn’t want to tell anyone, but he landed on the Olympic podium with multiple ankle fractures.

It wasn’t too long ago that skateboarding was often framed as dangerous, or even criminal, to the point that “Skateboarding Is Not a Crime” appeared on T-shirts and stickers. But it seems like the world might finally be coming around: the Tokyo Olympics is the first-ever Olympic Games with skateboarding events, which have lit up the skating world with...

Alexis Sablone, an Olympic athlete from Old Saybrook, came in fourth place at the first-ever Women’s Street Skateboarding Competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. “It was a pinnacle of achievement, just to see her there in Tokyo,” Fran Sablone, Alexis’ father, said. Fran said Alexis started skateboarding around age 10 and liked that it was a very mentally challenging and…

Holding the Olympics during a pandemic means lots of empty seats that were supposed to be filled with cheering fans. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain takes you to Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, where the first-ever Olympic skateboarding competition was held, to learn what it’s like to be one of the only fans in the Olympic stands — and how...