Teenager Sky Brown wins Olympic skateboarding bronze despite injury

Teenager Sky Brown wins Olympic skateboarding bronze despite injury

16-year-old injured disclocated shoulder in fallBrown: ‘I did fight through it and gave it my best’

Aged 11 she survived a near fatal skateboarding crash; at 12 she fractured her skull; at 13 she won bronze at Tokyo; at 15 she tore her knee and at 16 – little more than a week after dislocating her shoulder – Sky Brown took bronze again in the park skateboarding at Paris.

Brown and the 15-year-old Japanese skater Cocona Hiraki became the youngest athletes to win a medal at two Olympics in the park event at La Concorde on Tuesday, after being narrowly beaten by the 14-year-old Australian Arisa Trew to the gold.

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