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BY ROBERT MEDLEY
STAFF WRITER RMEDLEY@OKLAHOMAN.COM

Published: Mon, April 15, 2019 5:00 AM

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk was on hand Sunday for the grand opening of the new Stars and Stripes Skate Park as thousands gathered to watch and celebrate.

Crowds gathered around...

Oak Park high school graduate John Kelly rides his skateboard at Modern Skate Park in Royal Oak days before he leaves for college. Kelly will be playing football for the University of Tennessee Volunteers this fall. (Elaine Cromie | MLive Detroit)

ROYAL OAK -- As much a...

Two recent releases—‘Skate Kitchen’ and ‘Minding the Gap’—have ushered in another resurgence in the genre. Fifty years on, the directors, producers, and skaters who made these movies explain how they have evolved.

The plot of the 1965 short film Skaterdater is simple, b...

One day after capturing his third career Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe,Shaun White is teasing a potential appearance at the 2020 Games in Tokyo as a skateboarder. 

"It would mean the world to me to compete in skating," White said, per Rick Maese of the Washing...

The SLS World Tour is heading back to London! Tickets will go fast, so get yours now! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS. https://www.seetickets.com/tour/2019-sls-world-tour-london?src=onsale

Join us as we kick off our tenth season at the Copper Box Arena and check out the all new...

Youngster set to become Britain’s youngest summer Olympian

Brown will be 12 years old at start of Tokyo Games in 2020

She’s already the world’s youngest professional skateboarder, with an Instagram following of 300,000 hanging on her every video, from leaping off buses t...

| American skateboarder famous for more than just helping his daughter drop-in to a halfpipe for the first time.

Tony Hawk is universally recognised as one of the true pioneers of skateboarding.

But he's just won thousands of new fans on social media, thanks to a vi...

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18 March 2019

Dates&Locations of the 2019 World Skate SLS Pro Tour are now available: The best skaters in the world will ride from London to Los Angeles till the World Championships in Mexico City.

Stop 1: LONDON May 23-26...