Twelve-year-old skateboarding prodigy Sky Brown said she has fully recovered from her life-threatening fall last May and plans to broaden her horizons by adding surfing to her Olympic schedule.
Brown, who will be the only female member of Team GB when skateboarding makes its highly-anticipated debut in July, suffered skull fractures and a broken wrist and hand after she fell from a half-pipe in Southern California.She was taken by helicopter to the hospital where she underwent surgery and her father Stewart later said she was lucky to be alive."What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," a beaming Brown told Reuters in an interview from her home in Oceanside, California.
"I love surfing as much as I love skating," said Brown, who won bronze at the 2019 World Skateboarding Championship in the sport's park discipline.A spokesperson for Brown said it is still possible for her to qualify for Britain's surfing team in Tokyo but she would first need to compete in the British Cup, and it is unclear if she will allowed to do so.If not, she will have to wait until the Paris Olympics come around in three years time.
When the Los Angeles Games roll around in 2028, she will still be a teenager. If she can stay healthy, her potential is staggering.Like every Olympic athlete, Brown, who was born to a Japanese mother and a British father, was forced to cope with the disappointment of the one-year delay of the Tokyo Games."I'm going higher now, I've learned some new tricks and I can't wait. It's going to be really cool.
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