Featuring this edit from the Streetluge category at this year’s World Skate Games in Barcelona. Especially love seeing Loreline Pastor (Fr) and Elchje Minnie (Bel) commenting on the need for a women’s category, which we understand is well on it’s way to happening – at least with the IDF (International Downhill Federation). We look forward to sharing more from both the women and men who take things lying down 🙂
Category: World Skate 2019
Pearse gained his first International Downhill Federiation (IDF) podium with 3rd place at this year’s Transylvania Downhill’s event, Pasul Vulcan IDF World Cup 2019. Our new Media Editor, Ethan, just had to give him a call to share congrats and get his thoughts.
Continue reading “Tuck of the Irish – Pearse D’Arcy”Downhill longboarding and Streetluge are among the gravity sports which are rarely in the limelight. We hope this will change as a result of the World Skate / World Roller Games 2019, to be held in Barcelona in July. We interviewed those put forward .
Continue reading “UK & Ireland represents at World Roller Games 2019, Barcelona”Street League Skateboarding (SLS) returned to London a few weekends ago, with the Copperbox Arena at the Olympic Park hosting both women’s and men’s events spread over the two days. Kev Hurdle and Linden Nieto got up close to share the action.
Continue reading “SLS London 2019 – Street League Skateboarding Returns”Argentina has been chosen to host the 2021 World Skate Games: after the YOG, Buenos Aires renews its strong commitment towards sport and youth development, hosting the third edition of the WSG.
Continue reading “Argentina to host 2021 World Skate Games”World Skate regrets to learn about the exclusion of Skateboarding from the Pan-American Games in Lima.
The International Federation has always valued the Pan-American Games as one of the most prestigious multi-sport events of the Olympic cycle and of great importance for the development of all its disciplines.
Nevertheless, it was not possible to include the Pan-American Games in the Olympic qualification process and guarantee the presence of top athletes due to a basic incompatibility between the qualification system established by World Skate America for Lima 2019 and the qualification criteria as defined by the International Federation in view of Tokyo2020.
Since the qualification process for Lima has been based on the allocation of quotes to NOCs rather than on nominal ranking as it is for the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualification process, this would have not guaranteed the level of quality necessary for an Olympic qualification.
Unfortunately, when the qualification process for the Olympics was outlined, the qualifications for the Pan-American Games were already underway and, despite the efforts by both World Skate and the LOC of Lima2019, it was not possible to reach a mutual agreement.
Since the beginning of the Olympic adventure, World Skate’s priority has been to guarantee the full involvement and commitment of the best athletes. This has been possible thanks to the building of solid relationships with professional skaters and organizations boasting a long-standing tradition.
Behind Skateboarding international competitions, there is a multi-faceted reality that has been consolidated over the past 20 years by a number of events deemed to be the backbone of the Skateboarding international scene and source of livelihood for many athletes. The new model being built by World Skate integrating some of these events into the qualification system, is part of an international calendar full of events during the austral winter.
In the future, World Skate will try to give top priority to key events such as the Pan-American Games by means of a qualification process able to guarantee quality, transparency and equal opportunities to athletes and the entire sport community.
The second edition of the Barcelona Downhill Cup is set to take place next Saturday, 4 May, at what will be the circuit of this discipline during the World Roller Games.
Continue reading “World Roller Games Announces Downhill Circuit”World’s first skate and beer company become official partner of World Skate / SLS World Series Tour event in London
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Dew Tour Hosting Skateboarding Qualification Events in both 2019 and 2020;
2019 Summer Dew Tour to be held June 13-16 in Long Beach, Calif.