British teen Sky Brown targets medals in two sports at Paris Olympics – The Telegraph

It was not until she became Nikes youngest sponsored athlete seven years later, along with her desire to represent Britain, that her colourful young life was thrust into the limelight.

In 2018, she starred in the American reality TV show Dancing With The Stars: Juniors. Brown had never danced before but ended up winning the competition, aged 10.

When I interviewed Brown four years ago, her parents controlled her social media accounts. Nowadays, Brown has free rein over her 1.3 million followers on Instagram, where she documents the highs and lows of competing in a high-risk sport. Last October, she fractured her ankle after a fall in training, causing her to miss the WST Rome Park Championships.

Things like that dont hold me back, they just make me stronger, Brown says. Falling is part of life, so is getting back up. Its a lifestyle for me and its what I love to do and nothings going to stop me. Hopefully, that will inspire other girls to keep going in sport.

The day after opening the skate park, where she is helping to launch a GB Skateboarding partnership with Samsung aimed at engaging more young people in the sport, she flew to Indonesia for a period of warm winter surfing.

It looks crazy on the internet, concedes Stuart, who accompanies his daughter on all her trips. People see shes in London, then back in Japan, but actually because we do it quickly, we keep it really tight. She missed two X Games. Most skateboarders who are invited to the X Games will never not go its the Olympics of skateboarding she says no to a lot of stuff to keep that balance. Shes done the bare minimum to be the highest British-ranked surfer.

Brown is still not old enough to buy a National Lottery ticket in the UK, but should she succeed in representing her country in two sports next year in Paris, Brown will feel like she has won the jackpot.

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British teen Sky Brown targets medals in two sports at Paris Olympics - The Telegraph