Fifty-year-old Andy MacDonald will join teenagers Sky Brown and Lola Tambling in a Team GB skateboarding squad for this summer’s Olympics that spans the age spectrum.
The American-born MacDonald , who has won eight X Games gold medals including a doubles title with the great Tony Hawk in the 1990s, came out of retirement in a quest to reach Paris 2024 after watching skateboarding’s Olympic debut in Tokyo.
MacDonald, who qualifies for Team GB as a result of his Luton-born father Roderick, said: “Getting a qualification place at the Olympics is something I never thought would happen.
“It took a hundred things aligning for me to get the points needed and luckily for me, they did.”
MacDonald will become the oldest Olympic skateboarder in history and he says his qualifcation proves “age is just a number” as he aims to “represent the old guys”.
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