Words by Josh Zickert Several months prior to the April 2025 Sakura Sake Tour Patrik Wallner had linked me up with Japan’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where ...

Yuto Horigome of Japan has retained his Olympic title in men’s street skateboarding in Paris, clinching the top of the podium on his last trick in a tense final. Team USA’s Jagger Eaton upgraded his ...

The field of skateboarders for the 2024 Paris Olympics is dominated by heavy hitters. With nearly all of the medalists from ...

Japan's Kazuki Tomono topped the men's short program at Skate America on Friday with a polished performance that included a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Skateboarding’s debut on the Olympic stage in Tokyo has spurred many skaters to ask one very simple question: will this finally mean more skate parks across Japan? Japan has won ...

Skateboarding Internet sensation, Madars Apse and Skate Tales recently touched down in Japan to link up with Kento Yoshioka—who is better known as Japanese Super Rat—a true force in the country’s ...

Japan's world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the Skate America pairs title on Saturday as short program leaders Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava crashed in the deciding free skate.

In a field consisting entirely of teenagers, World No. 1 and No. 2 Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan were going neck and neck to claim the Olympic title in their debut. Fourteen-year-old Yoshizawa ...

TOKOROZAWA, Japan — Ryusei Ouchi takes a deep breath as he uses his cane to feel out the edge of the 3-meter-high ramp, shuffles to the edge and then drops in. Like all skateboarders, the rush of air, ...