Skateboarding is an action sport
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Skateboarding
Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry job, and a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2009 report found that the skateboarding market is worth an estimated $4.8 billion in annual revenue with 11.08 million active skateboarders in the world. In 2016, it was announced that skateboarding will be represented at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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2020 Skateboarding will be a sport at the Olympic Games in Tokyo for the first time in the history of the Olympics. Skateboarding has long been relegated to the alternative X-Games, but making it an Olympic sport gives it a legitimacy that athletes have known it deserved all along. Zeuner hopes to make history again by making her Olympic debut, along with Skateboarding, in Tokyo. “It’s a huge deal for skateboarding as a sport,” she asserts.
“When I started skating, the contests were all