Olympics 2024: Sky Brown, 16, wins second skateboard bronze

Sky Brown, who at 16 years previous is Crew GB’s youngest athlete on the Paris Olympics, overcame a shoulder damage to win bronze within the ladies’s skateboard park last on Tuesday with a greatest rating of 92.31.

It’s the second Olympic bronze medal of Brown’s profession after she received her first in Tokyo three years in the past aged 13 years and 28 days.

Forward of the ultimate, Brown was in seen ache after falling in the course of the skateboarding heats, simply days after she dislocated her shoulder.

The autumn in her second run brought about {the teenager} to clutch her left shoulder and he or she required a Crew GB member to test on her earlier than finishing her run.

She bravely returned to compete in an entertaining last in entrance of a vocal crowd and was heading in the right direction for silver earlier than Japan’s Cocona Hiraki,15, saved her greatest till final, scoring 92.63 in her last run, pushing Brown into third place.

“I am so pleased simply to be again on the Olympic stage, having the gang cheer me on, cheering all of us on and actually hyping us up was actually cool. Getting again on the rostrum, I imply getting on the rostrum in any respect is simply sick,” Brown mentioned.

“”This journey since Tokyo has been loopy however watching the degrees change at Paris and understanding all of us needed to push boundaries collectively has been actually cool. Arisa is wonderful and the extent has modified quite a bit since Tokyo.

“I’m a double Olympic medallist. It is actually cool and I am very pleased.

“Since Tokyo skateboarding has grown general as a sport. There are extra folks entering into it, extra skate parks, it has been nice for the game and I am hoping this one will probably be even crazier.”

14-year-old Arisa Trew of Australia received gold with 93.18.