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Sakura Yosozumi of Team Japan wearing a red shirt and blue helmet performs a trick on a skateboard in the women's park finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Teen girl wearing a red helmet and knee pads skateboards down a rail at a skate park in Phoenix, Arizona, with palm trees and a clear sky in the background. Young boy wearing a helmet and pads performs an aerial trick on a skateboard above the edge of a concrete skate park bowl, with trees visible in the background. Yuto Horigome of Japan performs a trick on a handrail during the men's street skateboarding final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with judges and spectators in the background. Yuto Horigome of Team Japan smiles and looks to the side while celebrating after winning gold in the Skateboarding Men's Street Finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Modified link of Web site: International Olympic Committee - Skateboarding: Tracing the sport’s journey from streets to the Olympics. Nov 07, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Skateboarding and the Ecology of Urban Space. Jun 17, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Big Ideas - Skateboarding and enjoying life. Nov 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Institution - Skateboards and Invention. Sep 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Institution - Skateboards and Invention. Sep 13, 2025
Add new Web site: UCLA Lewis Center - Faster than Walking, More Flexible than Biking: Skateboarding as a Real Mobility Mode (PDF). Jan 03, 2025
Add new Web site: UCLA Lewis Center - Faster than Walking, More Flexible than Biking: Skateboarding as a Real Mobility Mode (PDF). Dec 31, 2024
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at Linfield - Authenticity in the Skateboarding World (PDF). Jun 28, 2024
Added information about skateboarding becoming an Olympic event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. May 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Skateboarding and street culture. Dec 01, 2023
Link added. Feb 10, 2023
Add new Web site: International Olympic Committee - Skateboarding: Tracing the sport’s journey from streets to the Olympics. Jan 31, 2023
Media added. Apr 29, 2022
Corrected display issue. Feb 28, 2020
Add new Web site: LiveAbout - A Brief History of Skateboarding. Feb 23, 2020
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Entertainment - How Skateboarding Works. Mar 06, 2009
Added new Web site: SkateLog.com - Skateboarding History. Nov 26, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jun 22, 2007
Article thoroughly revised. Aug 03, 2006
Added new Web site: Exploratorium - Sport Science at the Exploratorium. May 31, 2006
Added new Web site: Exploratorium - Sport Science at the Exploratorium. May 31, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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