The sport had some setbacks early on, with the rain prompting the cancellation of some preliminaries and finals. Fan favourite Sky Brown also suffered an injury before she even got to Paris, which left fans wondering whether she would be cleared to compete after dislocating a shoulder.

Japan continues to dominate the sport but went home with just four medals, in contrast to Tokyo’s five-medal haul. While they took three out of four gold in the last Olympics, Japan only championed in two at Paris. 

Yuto Horigome came back from seventh place to retain his title by landing the highest-scoring trick of the men's street skateboarding final, much to the delight of the frenzied crowd. The nollie backside 270 blunt slide earned him a 97.08 for the win. 

"Yuto is a savage," said USA’s Jagger Eaton.

Eaton, who won bronze at Tokyo 2020, was in the provisional first-place position until Yuto’s last trick. He still podiumed with a silver along with fellow American Nyjah Huston.

Australia’s Keegan Palmer also became a back-to-back Olympic champion, successfully defending his title in men’s park. He cinched the victory in his opening run, a 93.11 that nobody could match.

Japan also kept its women’s street title, but this time, it was Coco Yoshizawa who topped the podium. Beforehand Yoshizawa only won her first contest at the final leg of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Budapest. 

The Team GB skateboarder Brown finally got the go-ahead after her shoulder injury and claimed another medal in women’s park. In a repeat of the inaugural event in Tokyo, the British-Japanese phenom also won a bronze, while her contender Cocona Hiraki of Japan took silver.

This time, though, Arisa Trew would take the gold: becoming Australia’s youngest-ever Olympic gold medallist. "I always knew that I wanted to be here and podium," the 14-year-old said after her historic win. "My parents promised if I won the gold medal I would get a pet duck," she later explained at a press conference.

The waterfowl fan Trew isn’t the youngest competing in the sport at Paris though. That distinction goes to China’s Zheng Haohao who arrived at the Games at the tender age of 11. The young skater finished 18th in the preliminary round.

On the other end of the spectrum, Great Britain’s Andy Macdonald became the oldest-ever skateboarder to compete in an Olympic Games at 51. The 23-time X Games gold medallist finished in 18th place as well, but not before wowing the crowd, including legend Tony Hawk, dropping a madonna and a body varial 540 in his runs. Macdonald called skateboarding a great unifier between the generations in one of his interviews.

The International Olympic Association brought in the urban sport in hopes of inspiring a new generation of Olympic athletes and fans. The sport’s popularity and recognition have been evident, with thousands of fans turning out to watch the Olympic Qualifying Series and the Paris Olympics events. The IOC has made skateboarding a permanent sport from the Los Angeles 2028 Games onwards.