Ultra-adorable extreme sport prodigy Sky Brown signals intent to both surf and skate for Britain in upcoming Paris Olympics: “It’s gonna be pretty hard but I’m gonna try my best because I love them both.”

Exciting times.

But didn’t it feel like just yesterday that surfing made its glorious Olympic debut there in suburban Tokyo? Entire globe on edge of seats watching Kanoa Igarashi, Carissa Moore, Italo Ferreira paddle out into hearts and minds. A massive success that launched our World Surf League into a catastrophic, much-hoped-for, collapse and here we almost are again.

Paris ’22.

The surfing portion, in two years’ time, will take place in Tahiti and I have it on decent enough rumor that Kelly Slater’s true intention this year is to qualify for the Team U.S.A. Is it possible? Anything is possible for NEGSOAT (Not Even Greatest Surfer of All-Time). But who will surf for Britain?

Well, maybe just maybe the ultra-adorable extreme sport prodigy Sky Brown.

Brown, 13, who won bronze in park skating at Tokyo, has signaled her intention to do both in Paris.

The Independent reports today:

She may be known for her skating prowess but Brown is multi-talented (she won a US TV dance show aged nine and released a song last year) and she is almost as prodigious on a surfboard as a skateboard. Her next ambition is to compete at the Paris Olympics in two years’ time in both skating and surfing. That will present practical challenges, given one competition will be held in Paris and the other off the Pacific island of Tahiti, as well as the sporting test of preparing for two disciplines, but then Brown has overcome greater challenges already in her burgeoning career. “It’s gonna be pretty hard but I’m gonna try my best because I love them both.”

True ambition.

The piece describes Brown’s family life, how she wakes up early to surf Huntington Beach then skates Venice or nearer parks until the warm sun sinks below the pacific. Living the London dream. It also describes how her father tries to pump the breaks on her competing so much.

Hmmmm.

But here, anyhow, is to Paris. Here is to the future of dual threat extreme sportists.

Viva la France.

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