Skateboarding
The youth skate park on a collision course with eastern suburbs residents
For 13 years, the idea has progressed and halted, in a battle that has involved everyone from activist neighbours to a prime minister. Now, construction has begun.
- Cindy Yin
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Jett used to share a sandwich with his family to save money. Now he’s one of Australia’s richest athletes
In the fifth and final part of our series on the biggest Australian earners in sport, we look at the 23-and-under category, including motocross superstar Jett Lawrence, whose family gambled it all on him and his brother making it big – and won.
- Marc McGowan
Jo was brutally assaulted in her 20s. Finding fishing ‘saved her life’
Women are finding friendship, community and deeper purpose by taking up hobbies - sometimes in male-dominated fields - in midlife.
- Riley Wilson
The Aussie teen handpicked by Tony Hawk to be in his new video game
Teenage Olympian Chloe Covell will be in the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 video game after the skating veteran picked the Aussie star to be a playable character.
- Billie Eder
Skateboarding made me realise: I’m a writer – I need my wrists
I wanted to learn something new, something hard, and be gracious at sucking at it. And everyday I got on that skateboard, I fell. I fell several times each hour. I broke my wrist twice.
- Jessie Tu
The 15-year-old who could break a 120-year-old Olympic record
She starred on a skateboard at the Paris Games, but Ruby Trew is just as at home on a surfboard. And she hopes to compete in both sports at Los Angeles in 2028.
- Cindy Yin
Snoop Dogg, jet-skis and kickflips: The life of skater Chloe Covell after Paris
Fresh from her Olympic debut, teenage skater Chloe Covell is back in Australia for the Sydney leg of the Street League Skateboarding.
- Billie Eder
You should start that hobby you’ve always wanted to try. Here’s why
For adults, starting a new hobby can be a daunting task. This is why you should make the leap, as told by three people who have done the same.
- Gemma Grant
Queens of Concrete: Life after the Olympic skateboarding dream
Australian Arisa Trew triumphed with a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, but the journey for girls in skateboarding isn’t straightforward, as a new film shows.
- Cara Waters
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This is Australia’s greatest performance at an Olympics – thanks to our women
My enormous head bursts with patriotic pride when I look at the medal ladder.
- Andrew Webster