Sky Brown: The 10-year-old British skateboarder aiming to make history at Tokyo

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Sky Brown surfs, skateboards and dances, and hopes to become Britain's youngest ever summer Olympian at the Tokyo Games next year - when she'll be just 12 years old.

'I can do anything': Meet Sky Brown, the 10-year-old skating sensationThe agonisingly cool Sky Brown surfs, skateboards and dances, and hopes to become Britain's youngest ever summer Olympian by appearing at the Tokyo Games next year - she'll be just 12.

"I just want to get out there, have fun and I don't really know who I'm competing with or any of that stuff," she told BBC Sport. Sky, who lives in Miyazaki but spends much of the year in the US, first came to public notice when she became Nike's youngest signing, with giant posters of the pint-sized skater appearing in stores all over the United States.featuring icons of women's sport, including gymnast Simone Biles, and athletes Caster Semenya and Dina Asher-Smith.

In February, she won gold at Simple Session, a senior women's competition in Tallin, Estonia, on a park course designed for men twice her size.

 

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So she lives in Miyazaki, Japan, spends much of the year in the US, trains in LA, but she's representing Britain?

Good luck sweetheart

Too young for all that publicity. Let children be children.

Years ago I wrote a Black female superhero character called Sky Brown. They laughed Just look at her now!

Terrible name for a paint

go baby

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