Skateboarding

Breaking
Sponsorship & Marketing

Long-standing Olympic sponsor Samsung has become a commercial backer of breaking, skateboarding and surfing properties ahead of Paris 2024 but sponsorship support for the sports’ governing bodies remains m…
Skateboarding
Media

Action sports network Fuel TV has renewed its deal with roller sports international governing body World Skate for live worldwide rights to all three qualifying events for the Paris 2024 Olympics
Skateboarding
Events

Rakuten Sports has announced the launch of Uprising Tokyo, a new international skateboarding event in the Japanese capital
Skateboarding
Governance

World Skate has cancelled its 2022 Park and Street World Championships, which were due to be held in Rio de Janeiro next month, because of “organisational and financial” concerns about the local organising com…
Skateboarding
Media

Action sports broadcaster Fuel TV has agreed a global distribution deal with World Skate for the World Street Skateboarding event in Rome that is acting as a qualifier for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
BMX Freestyle
Events

The International Olympic Committee has revealed plans to launch a new qualifier series, featuring the fledgling Olympic sports of BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing, for the 2024…
Multiple Sports
Events

Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing are set to be included at Los Angeles’ 2028 Olympics after being named in the initial programme of 28 sports.
Skateboarding
Media

World Skate, the international federation for sports performed on skating wheels, has agreed a four-year deal with Mediapro for the agency and production group to market its events globally
Skateboarding
Events

Street League Skateboarding (SLS), the sport’s leading professional series, has announced its schedule for the 2020 season ahead of skateboarding’s Olympic debut in Tokyo this summer.
Martial Arts
Events

Five sports are set to be added to the programme for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal, after the International Olympic Committee Executive Board approved the inclusions of breakdancing, karate,…
Skateboarding
Events

The International Olympic Committee voted on Tuesday in support of adding breaking, popularly known as breakdancing, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing to the Paris 2024 Olympic programme
Skateboarding
Events

Breakdancing is poised to make its debut at the summer Olympic Games after Paris 2024 today (Thursday) named it as one of four proposed additional sports for its event
Skateboarding
Business

World Skate, the global governing body for skateboarding, has today (Monday) entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with Street League Skateboarding (SLS) for the sanctioning of the SLS World Tour and Super Crown World Championships.

Skateboarding
Other

The International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) is set to take on a new identity ahead of skateboarding’s debut at the summer Olympic Games after the global governing body approved a name change to World Skate.

Skateboarding
Other

The International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) and the International Skateboarding Federation (ISF) have proposed a merger between the two organisations.
Skateboarding
Business

Sabatino Aracu has been re-elected as president of the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS).
Skateboarding
Business

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has claimed progress in the effort to develop a collaborative model to deliver skateboarding’s summer Olympic Games debut at the 2020 event in Tokyo.
Skateboarding
Business

Skateboarding’s bid for inclusion at the 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo has been placed in doubt after a lawsuit was filed by the World Skateboarding Federation (WSF) against rival body the International Skateboarding Federation (ISF).