Singapore urban sport athletes hope for better facilities, support in bid for 2028 Olympics

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After missing out on next month’s Paris Olympics, skateboarder Felix Balzer and national climber Luke Goh are hoping to qualify for the next Games.

SINGAPORE: At just three years old, Felix Balzer got his first taste of skateboarding and never looked back.

“There's a lot of creativity, like you can invent tricks. And it’s about the community - it's great.” “It gets taken more seriously because it's in the Olympics now, and I'm really glad that over the years, we've seen this huge growth in climbing and how climbing is perceived in the general public. So it is a positive change,” he added.Now that it is part of the Olympics and the Asian Games, Goh hopes it will also make its way to the Southeast Asian Games. The next edition of the regional event will take place in Thailand next year.

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