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 ...

Japanese male street skateboarders are creating some of the most difficult tricks in the history of the sport, and landing them in high style. Scroll to continue Here is Yuto Horigome, the Tokyo ...

TOKYO, Nov. 27 (UPI) --Japan, which arguably boasts the best skateboarders in the world, gets to show them off to home crowds this week during a World Skateboarding Tour stop in Kitakyushu City in the ...

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 ...

Gold medallist Japan's Coco Yoshizawa (C), silver medallist Japan's Liz Akama (L) and bronze medallist Brazil's Rayssa Leal stand on the podium during the victory ceremony for the women's street ...

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, ...