Skateboarder Sky Brown to miss Olympic Qualifier Series event due to knee injury
The 15-year-old sustained a MCL tear in her knee but should be fit for the second qualifying event, which takes place in Budapest next month.
Skateboarder Sky Brown will miss this week’s Olympic Qualifier Series event to recover from injury.
The 15-year-old sustained a MCL tear in her knee, according to NBC, and will subsequently miss the series, which starts in Shanghai on Thursday.
She told NBC: “Every injury I’ve had, I’ve come back stronger. So this is just my time to really think about what I want to do next. It really puts a fire in my heart, and yeah, it happens, it is part of life.”
She is currently ranked number three in the Olympic World Skate rankings behind Japanese duo Cocona Hiraki and Hinano Kusaki, the former of whom earned silver in the park skateboard event in Tokyo.
Brown had hoped to represent Team GB at this year’s Paris Olympics in both surfing and skateboarding, but failed to qualify at the ISA World Surfing Games in March.
Brown added: “Since the [last] Olympics, I’ve won every event and I don’t want to lose that streak. So I’m going to keep going to try to get gold in every event, especially the Olympics.”
