Skateboarding

  1. Sky Brown competing at the 2024 Olympics. She's performing a jump on her skateboard, which is mostly white underneath. She's wearing black/dark blue kit and helmet.

  2. British skateboarder Sky Brown midway through a jump at the Paris Olympics, holding on to her board with one arm in the air

  3. Tom Pidcock celebrates winning gold

  4. Team GB diver Yasmin Harper smiles as she holds up her bronze medal

  6. 'Thank you and goodnight' - Macdonald's debut at 51 ends in heats

    Sonia Oxley
    BBC Sport in Paris

    Andy Macdonald competes in skateboardingGetty Images

    Andy Macdonald has been skating professionally since 1994

    Andy Macdonald's skateboarding Olympic debut at the age of 51 ended in the park heats but he called it "an experience of a lifetime".

    Born in Massachusetts, USA, he qualified for Great Britain via his Luton-born father. A legend of the sport, who invented some of its tricks decades before the skateboarding was introduced at the Olympics at Tokyo 2020, he had the crowd on its feet in appreciation after all three of his runs.

    But his best run of 77.66 put him 18th out of 22, with only the top eight qualifying for Wednesday's final.

    "That is how you're supposed to do it, get your run down and then everything else is bonus," he told BBC Sport.

    "Experience of a lifetime being at the Olympics.

    "There are very few things that bring the world together. Sport is one of those things and the Olympics is one of them."

    He said it had been a "long shot" to qualify for the Games in the first place but he clearly enjoyed every moment, waving his skateboard above his head and lapping up the cheers.

    "The first run I didn't do the nollie heelflip," he added. "That's a trick I invented and I didn't want to bail on a trick that I invented.

    "Then on my second round I put that in, then in my third round I put in the fake 540 that is the one that did it for me in Budapest [to help me qualify for Paris], it was totally a bonus if I could make it here.

    "I did a backflip for the fans - thank you and goodnight!"

    Australian defending champion Keegan Palmer (93.78) was the top qualifier, followed by American Tom Schaar (92.05) and Italy's Alex Sorgente (91.14). World number one Tate Carew qualified fourth with 90.42.

    The eight-man final is from 16:30.

  15. Japan's Horigome retains Olympic skateboarding title

    Yuto Horigome a the 2024 Paris OlympicsGetty Images

    Horigome also won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021

    Japan's Yuto Horigome won gold in the men's street skateboarding to retain his Olympic title.

    The 25-year-old's final score of 281.14 edged out American Jagger Eaton by 0.1 points, with fellow US skateboarder Nyjah Huston taking bronze.

    Tokyo bronze medallist Eaton was leading going into the final round, before a score of 97.08 - the highest of the competition - saw Horigome secure gold.

    His win completes a skateboard street double for Japan after 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa was victorious in the women's event.

  16. Japan's Yoshizawa wins skateboard street gold in Paris

    Jess Anderson
    BBC Sport journalist in Paris

    Coco Yoshizawa Olympics Paris Getty Images

    Yoshizawa finished first in the Olympic Qualifier Series in June to book her place in Paris

    Japanese teenager Coco Yoshizawa won skateboard street gold after a dramatic final in Paris.

    The 14-year-old has had a rapid rise through the rankings in the past year and her final score of 272.75 secured victory on her Olympic debut.

    Yoshizawa raised her arms into the air as she nailed her final trick to the delight of a packed crowd inside Place de la Concorde.

    It meant she knocked compatriot Liz Akama off the top spot, with the 15-year-old finishing second while Brazil's Rayssa Leal, silver medalist in Tokyo three years ago, took bronze.

    Great Britain did not qualify for the street event but Sky Brown and Lola Tambling will compete in the women's park event on 6 August before Andy MacDonald goes in the men's event on 7 August.