Silver Kokona, Gold Sakura, Bronze Sky ~ Photo Bryce Kanights for World Skate

 

If you missed watching Women's Park Skateboarding live from the Olympics last night, you missed out on one of the greatest women's skate comps of all time!

 

The battles were fierce and every single skater gave it their all. From prelims to finals it was anyone's guess as to who would advance at times.  We were on the edge of our seats, biting our nails throughout most of the evening!

 

MEDAL RESULTS

• Gold - Sakura Yosozumi - Japan (age 19)
  
• Silver -  Kokona Hiraki - Japan (age 12)
  
• Bronze -  Sky Brown - Great Britain (age 13)
  

Gold Medalist, Sakura Yosozumi - Japan    Photo Bryce Kanights for World Skate

 

Silver Medalist, Kokona Hiraki - Japan    Photo Bryce Kanights for World Skate

Bronze Medalist, Sky Brown - Great Britain    Photo Bryce Kanights for World Skate

The eight finalists were:

• Misugu Okamoto - Japan
• Sky Brown - Great Britain
• Kokona Hiraki - Japan
  
• Sakura Yosozumi - Japan 
• Bryce Wettstein - USA
• Poppy Olsen - Australia
• Yndiara Asp - Brazil
• Dora Varella - Brazil
• Lilly Stoephasius - Great Britain
  
• Isadora Pachecho -  Brazil

Overall this was some of the absolute best skating we have seen from the women, it is obvious that for many, Pandemic or not, they were training hard throughout and very serious about their skating. The level went up substantially at this comp.

We can't wait to see how this changes women's skateboarding - in a good way!

Congrats to all the women who skated in the first ever Olympic Women's Park Competition!

Team USA ~ Jordyn Barratt, Brighton Zeuner, Bryce Wettstein ~ Photos Acosta

 

HEAT SHEETS

 

 

 

 

 SCHEDULE - IN WORLD TIME ZONES

 

 

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE - USA

 

**All skateboarding events will be livestreamed on NBCOlympics.com with NBC Primetime highlights of the women, NBC Primetime replay of the men**

 

Women: Park Prelims Heats 1-4 

Wednesday, August 4 / 9am - 11am  Japan Time/  5pm - 7pm PT (August 3) 

https://stream.nbcolympics.com/skateboarding-womens-park-qualification-heat-1-to-4 

Women: Park Finals 

 

Wednesday, August 4/ 12:30pm Japan Time/ 8:30pm PT (August 3) 

 

https://stream.nbcolympics.com/skateboarding-womens-park-final   

 

 

 

NBC Primetime Highlights 

 

August 4/ 1:05pm Japan Time/ 9:05pm (August 3) 

 

https://stream.nbcolympics.com/nbc-prime-plus-august-3 

USA Olympic Women's Park Team ~ Photo Ian Logan

                             (From left to right) Brighton Zeuner, Bryce Wettstein, Jordyn Barratt
  

WHERE CAN I TUNE IN?

NBC is home to the Olympics, so tune into your local NBC station for prime time coverage. 

Programing will also be featured on NBC Sports Network, USA, CNBC, the NBC Olympics channel, the Golf Channel and Telemundo. 

Or viewers can stream the Games at Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and NBCSports.com. 

Tokyo Olympics programming can also be seen on streamers that feature NBC such as Sling TV, Roku, Hulu Plus, FuboTV, AT&T TV, Xfinity and YouTube TV. 

** We will be honest here - it was a total shit show there in the USA trying to watch Women's Street last week  - some broadcasts did a split screen during commercials, some left to go to another Olympic sport entirely, and we missed women's runs.

We suggest - going to NBC via whatever service provides you with TV coverage and also pulling up nbcsports.com on your ipad, laptop, or phone so you have BOTH running at same time in case one drops off during prelims. We are "assuming" finals will be adequately covered no matter which platform you are viewing on.

Not easy, but the best solution we can find after last weeks debacle.

All times below are West Coast times!

WOMEN'S PARK  TUESDAY AUGUST 3rd  

5:00 PM  PDT -  PRELIMS - Heats 1-4

8:30 PM  PDT - FINAL MEDAL RUNS

If you are interested in watching Men's Park, here is that info as well - we did hear a rumor that Men's Park may be rescheduled...

MEN'S PARK  AUGUST 4Tth  

5:00 PM  PDT -  PRELIMS - Heats 1-4

8:30 PM  PDT - FINAL MEDAL RUNS

Please keep checking your local stations -times are subject to change!

The Monarch Project ads in Thrasher don't give much away

 

Maybe you have heard the news? 

Pro skaters Leticia Bufoni and Sky Brown have teamed up to create the new skate brand "Monarch Project". There is a sneak peek of two ads in Thrasher Magazine this month and Leticia has been slyly posting shots of the board on her Instagram.

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Sky Brown and Leticia Bufoni Monarch Project Decks

We also saw the white deck drop recently on the Monarch Project website - looks like black boards for Leticia and white for Sky?

We are interested to see who else gets named to the Monarch Team - we have heard a rumor that it will be a team with male and female riders - which is very cool

So far, some good guesses due to what we have seen at the X-Games and the Olympics would be young talent like Gui Khury and Rayssa Leal perhaps.

Gui is now the youngest skateboarder to become a gold medalist at the X Games. He beat eight other contestants in the Vert Best Trick contest including skateboarding legend, Tony Hawk. He became the youngest ever skateboarder to land a move known as the 1080, on a non-mega vert ramp.

Rayssa at age 13 just won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics for Women's Street. Kind of a huge deal right there.

When Gui won gold at X-Games, he posed for a pic with Leticia and Sky (also gold medalists at X- Games) which led to speculation that he woudl be announced as the first team rider. Next came the Olympics, and while Leticia didn't make the finals, she stayed in the stand cheering her protege Rayssa on.

Could these two be the first team riders on the new brand? 

Stay tuned - we are interested to see where this is all headed!

Momiji Nishiya wins Gold In Women's Street at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

If you watched the Women's Street comp last night live from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics you may have been surprised at just how many young teenage girls were competing in the final. You also may have been surprised that the lone American, Alexis Sablone, at age 34 with a degree from MIT held her own and just narrowly missed podium. 

That's skateboarding. Age doesn't matter, although the younger generation seems to be gaining on all of us. Perhaps that's because they have seen women like Sablone pave the way for them and they know that anything is possible. Sablone has been skateboarding longer than some of these young girls have been alive.

Watching two thirteen year old girls take the podium - Momiji Nishiya (Japan) and Rayssa Leal (Brazil) along with sixteen year old Funa Nakayama (Japan) it seemed to be a teens game in the end. But when you look closely at the scores, American skater, Alexis Sablone, was not too far off.

We may be celebrating the youth at these games - as skateboarding in the Olympics is one sport that has no age requirements. But let's not forget about the women like Alexis who have competed and charged so hard all these years and are still at the top of their game. Yesterday Sablone showed the world that for those of us that skate, skateboarding has no expiration date.

Alexis Sablone (USA) Photo via USA Skateboarding

Other interesting facts - Momiji is not quite the youngest to win a gold medal at the games but she does fall into an elite group - had Rayssa Leal taken Gold she would have been the youngest gold medalist in Olympic history.

Here are some stats:

Marjorie Gestring

USA diving

In 1936 aged 13 years, 268 days.

Klaus Zerta

Germany rowing 

In 1960 aged 13 years, 283 days.

Nishiya Momiji

Japan skateboarding 

In 2021 aged 13 years, 330 days old.

Jagger Eaton ~ Photo Atiba

 

Yuto Horigome (Gold),  Kelvin Hoefler (Silver), Jagger Eaton (Bronze)

Jagger Eaton (USA) wins the Bronze Medal in Men's Skateboard Street at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

We don't usually post about men's skateboarding, but since it's the Olympics we felt that our male counterparts should also get some love!

Via USA Skateboarding - Tokyo, Japan (July 25, 2021) —  History was made today at Tokyo’s Ariake Park with the debut of skateboarding in the 2020 Olympic Games, and  Arizona’s Jagger Eaton bringing home the first Olympic medal for the United States. Eaton was the first skater in the first heat to drop in at today’s semi-finals and maintained his lead throughout all four heats. Eaton posted a final round score of 35.35, 0.8 behind the 36.15 points by Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler. Yuto Horigome of Japan gave the host nation the honor of winning the first gold medal presented in the sport by scoring 37.18. 

“To be able to have skateboarding on this pedestal where it is now and being able to have all these eyes on it, it makes me so happy because skating brings so much joy,” Eaton said about the Olympic debut of skateboarding. “And to be able to do this and take home a bronze for Team USA and be the first skateboarder on earth to do this, my pride is just through the roof, and I’m so proud of Team USA and the battle that we went through these past few years to get here, and I feel blessed to take this home to Arizona.”  

Josh Friedberg, USA Skateboarding CEO: “Skateboarding’s debut in the Olympic Games looked and felt like the skateboarding we know and love, and the results only emphasize what an incredibly difficult undertaking it is to compete at this level. Congrats to Yuto Horigome and Kelvin Hoefler on their Gold and Silver medals, and congrats to Jagger Eaton on making history as the first-ever American Olympic Skateboarding medalist with his Bronze today. While these three were on the podium, skateboarding truly won today! “

Hailing from Mesa, Arizona, Jagger Eaton has limitless talent and versatility, as evidenced by his switching to the USA Skateboarding Men’s Park National Team this year after making the Men’s Street team in 2020. Add to that his many top-5 finishes in Big Air competition, and it’s clear why Jagger is one of the most progressive and technical skateboarders the sport has ever seen. In 2012, at 11 years old, Jagger set the Guinness World Record as the youngest ever X Games competitor and has continued to grow into a powerhouse. In 2017, he dominated the X Games, sweeping the gold medal in both the Skateboard Am Street and Park events. In 2018, Jagger pulled a global 1-2 by winning the Tampa Pro contest in Florida as a rookie, then traveling to Estonia to win the Simple Sessions Street contest, to Norway for a 2nd-place finish at the X Games, and finally returning to the US to take 2nd at both the Dew Tour Street in Long Beach, California and the X Games in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The USA Olympic Skateboard Team ~ Photo Ian Logan

 

Get ready, because Tokyo Olympic's 2020 Opening Ceremonies happen this FRIDAY night and you'll want to watch all the athletes walk into the arena - but especially the skateboarders!

Next up will be Skateboard Street and the following week, Skateboard Park.

Use our easy watch guide so you don't miss any of the action go down.

WHAT TIME IS IT, HERE/THERE!?

Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time and 16 hours ahead of Pacific time, which means many events held in the evening in Tokyo will be in the early morning hours for U.S. viewers.

Photo Ian Logan

WHERE CAN I TUNE IN?

 NBC is home to the Olympics, so tune into your local NBC station for primetime coverage. 

Programing will also be featured on NBC Sports Network, USA, CNBC, the NBC Olympics channel, the Golf Channel and Telemundo. 

Or viewers can stream the Games at Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and NBCSports.com. 

Tokyo Olympics programming can also be seen on streamers that feature NBC such as Sling TV, Roku, Hulu Plus, FuboTV, AT&T TV, Xfinity and YouTube TV. 

WILL I BE ABLE TO SEE IT ALL?

The Tokyo Olympics will be broadcast and streamed in the U.S. on NBC Universal platforms, which will feature more than 7,000 hours of coverage.

I WANT TO WATCH THE OPENING CEREMONIES

For the first time ever, NBC will broadcast the opening ceremony live in the morning — that's 7:00 AM EDT (and 4:00 AM PDT!) for you super-early birds. 

But for folks who want to catch up later in the day, NBC will re-air the event Friday at 7:30 PM EDT, and then again for a third time overnight, so there's almost no chance that you will miss out. 

**(The network will air the closing ceremony on Aug. 8 at 7:00 AM EDT.) 

Photo Ian Logan

WHAT IS THE SCHEDULE TO WATCH SKATEBOARDING?

 (This is the schedule for watching in the USA - all times PDT)

USA Men's + Women's Olympic Street Skateboarding Team ~ Photo Ian Logan

MEN'S STREET  ON  JULY 24th

4:30 PM  PDT -  PRELIMS - Heats 1-4

8:25 PM  PDT - FINAL MEDAL RUNS

WOMEN'S STREET  ON JULY 25th

4:30 PM  PDT -  PRELIMS - Heats 1-4

8:25 PM  PDT - FINAL MEDAL RUNS

USA Men's + Women's Olympic Park Skateboarding Team ~ Photo Ian Logan

WOMEN'S PARK  AUGUST 3rd  

5:00 PM  PDT -  PRELIMS - Heats 1-4

8:30 PM  PDT - FINAL MEDAL RUNS

MEN'S PARK  AUGUST 4Tth  

5:00 PM  PDT -  PRELIMS - Heats 1-4

8:30 PM  PDT - FINAL MEDAL RUNS

Please keep checking your local stations -times are subject to change!

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We have heard about it for so long, but to now see these current photos from USA skateboarding on instagram, it gives us goosebumps!Check out those Olympic Rings!!

Stay tuned we will be posting the complete scheduile for Opening Ceremonies as well as Skateboard Street and Park comps ASAP!

Samarria Brevard, Leticia Bufoni and Poe Pinson at the medal ceremony for Women’s Skateboard Street during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)
 

Leticia Bufoni at the medal ceremony for Women’s Skateboard Street during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)
 

X-Games Women's Skateboard Street Competition kicked off in the afternoon, where Leticia Bufoni earned her fifth gold and broke the record for most gold in Women’s Skateboard Street history!

This also marked her 12th medal overall, tying snowboarder Lindsay Jacobellis for third-most X Games medals by a woman. 

Bufoni entered her fourth run in silver medal position, before throwing down a backside feeble grind on A-frame rail, frontside tailslide to fakie down Hubba ledge, 360 flip up bank to flat, frontside feeble grind, backside lipslide down 6-stair handrail, backside ollie up Euro gap and frontside ollie 180 down 8-stair set to earn gold in the very last run of the competition. 

Samarria Brevard added her second X Games medal with silver and Poe Pinson took bronze in her second X Games appearance.

 

Leticia Bufoni competing in Women’s Skateboard Street during X Games Summer 2021. 

(Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)

 

  

 

 

Samarria Brevard competing in Women’s Skateboard Street during X Games Summer 2021.

 (Photo by Joshua Gateley / ESPN Images)

Poe Pinson competing in Women’s Skateboard Street during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)

Watch the gold, silver and bronze medal runs from Women’s Skateboard Street at X Games 2021.

This Olympics will be like no other, spectators and parents will stay home, athletes will compete in empty stadiums. Staying connected is the best way to take those you love at home with you. This new Olympic ad from Samsung features GB's Sky Brown.

Vista, CA - July 16, 2021 - CA Training Facility: Mami Tezuka, Sky Brown and Bryce Wettstein at the medal ceremony for Women’s Skateboard Park during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)

In Women’s Skateboard Park, the teenagers once again ruled the competition - the field had an average age of just 18. Nine days after turning 13, Sky Brown dropped into her first run and dropped a frontside 540 as her last trick. She is the first woman to land it and the only woman who does that trick in competition. However, it was her third run that was her best, which included a frontside 360 box jump, frontside alleyoop 270 on the hip and a backside tailslide through the corner. 

19-year-old Mami Tezuka launched herself into silver medal position with her last run, where she stomped a frontside stalefish over the gap in run four, which she had never landed previously. 

17-year-old Encinitas native Bryce Wettstein rounded out the podium with bronze. All three riders earned their first X Games medals. 

Sky Brown will represent Great Britain and Bryce Wettstein will represent the USA in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. 

Women's X-Games Park was insane today! Along with some great skating, some news was casually dropped in the broadcast stream.

We noticed that Sky wasn't riding her usual ALMOST board with her graphic on it and we were curious about that. We didn't have to wait too long for X-games announcer Lyn-Z Pastrana to share that Sky and Leticia Bufoni have teamed up and have started their own skateboard company, MONARCH. More news on that in the near future we presume.

 Enjoy the contest and some great photos below!

Shout out to GN4LW team rider Minna Stess for her awesome runs today!

Vista, CA - July 16, 2021 - CA Training Facility: Minna Stess competing in Women’s Skateboard Park during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Joshua Gateley / ESPN Images)

Vista, CA - July 16, 2021 - CA Training Facility: Bryce Wettstein competing in Women’s Skateboard Park during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Joshua Gateley / ESPN Images)

Vista, CA - July 16, 2021 - CA Training Facility: Jordan Santana competing in Women’s Skateboard Park during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Joshua Gateley / ESPN Images)

Vista, CA - July 16, 2021 - CA Training Facility: Kihana Ogawa competing in Women’s Skateboard Park during X Games Summer 2021. (Photo by Joshua Gateley / ESPN Images)

This new Olympic spot from the BBC infuses their athletes into so many scenarios you may just feel like you are in Tokyo taking it all in.

By infusing Japanese pop culture with sports references they created a video promo for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics that you'll really need to wtach again and again to catch all the subtle references.

Keep your eye out for skateboarder, Sky Brown. Below is a hint of where to look when you watch the video...

"What Agnes Saw" is a powerful film that will be shown during the opening ceremonies in Tokyo.

Gymnast Agnes Keleti is a 10-time Olympic medalist. 

At 100 years old, she’s also the oldest living Olympic Champion. 

She was forced to put her gymnastics career on hold when the Nazi's invaded her  Hungary, where she lived with her parents. Later she was forced out of her gym for being Jewish.

None of this could stop Agnes and she went on against all odds to win 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games.

And when she sees the new generation of athletes like Team GB's youngest Olympian, Sky Brown, she knows that together, we’re stronger than the darkness can ever be.

 It's here! The much anticipated video from Dolores Magazine x Skate Agora! This is their first video filmed 100% in Sony VX! 

 Filmed by Enrique Mayor & Damia Tesorero 

Edited by Enrique Mayor 

Starring @merceiserte, @le666ti, Anna Plewa, @paolaflores90, @roxana_botu, @marinadelvillarr, @marionapujolmerino, @zlyth96, @aimybradyskates, @indy.pendent, @biggestyle, @camilaruiztac, @marsbarreramauri, @martinaschww, @raisaabal, @_mmmir, @rougesk8 & @desa.parecid.a

We're now huge fans of the Argentina skate crew and video "Girls Invasion" - this new video drop features skaters Eugenia Ginepro, Aldana Bertran, Camila Ruiz, Melisa Ruiz, Noelia Canaparo. 

Filmed in different Argentinian spots as well as Brazil, Copenhagen and Barcelona.

Filming:: Pamela Carabajal 

Music: Funk Invation/ Rock Invation - Geronimo Bravo 

Production + direction: Deeny Suarez 

Editing: Leonardo Mercado (doceseis)

Check out this video featuring Christiana Means from Teen Vogue!

23-year-old Filipino Olympic skateboarder Christiana Means takes Teen Vogue through her weekly routine leading up to filming a horror skate video. 

Between mastering 15 difficult tricks, all done in the dark and working a full-time job watch and see how this Olympian balances it all. 

 Cinematography by Russell Cornell and Jeremy Castro-Cook. 

Follow Christiana here: http://instagram.com/christiana.means

How to make a skateboard Olympians smile?   Keep watching.

Allianz is offering Dashawn Jordan, Leticia Bufoni and any Olympic Games-bound skateboarders training in LA mental health support in the form of access to Allianz Support Squad. 

Three-time Olympic medalist ski racer, Lindsey Vonn, has teamed up with Allianz to help share the benefits of puppy love with some of the athletes preparing for this summer's Tokyo Olympics. Vonn is connecting the financial service company's Support Dog Squad - a pack of more than 50 trained emotional support pooches from non-profit organizations Love on 4 Paws and Little Angels - to a group of skateboarders training in Los Angeles for their Olympic debuts.

 How rad is that?

 

The X-Games are back in Southern California this year (we missed them!) and while there are no spectators allowed at the events due to COVID precautions, you can watch the competition unfold via a LIVE stream on various platforms.

Here's what you need to know to watch WOMEN'S PARK and WOMEN'S STREET  (and Lyn-Z Pastrana (YES!) is covering skateboarding along with Gary Rogers) 

Kihana Ogawa | Photo by Bryce Kanights / ESPN Images

FRIDAY, JULY 16th -  3:00 - 4:00 PM  ET   / 12 Noon - 1:00 PM 

WOMEN'S SKATEBOARD PARK

 

Skaters Invited Include:

 

Minna Stess

Sky Brown

Grace Marhoffer

Poppy Starr Olsen

Bryce Wettstein

Jordan Santana

Mami Tezuka

Nora Vasconcellos

Kihana Ogawa 

 

Watch it LIVE on:  X Games YouTube & Facebook & Twitter & TikTok & ESPN App

 

 

Leticia Bufoni ~ Image via X-Games / ESPN Images

SATURDAY, JULY 17th -  6:00 - 7:00 PM  ET   /   3:00 PM - 4:00 PM   

WOMEN'S SKATEBOARD STREET 

Skaters Invited Include:

Samarria Brevard

Leticia Bufoni

Fabiana Delfino

Virginia Fortes

Poe Pinson

Isabelly Silva

Jenn Soto

Nika Washington

Watch it LIVE on:  X Games YouTube & Facebook & Twitter & TikTok & ESPN App

MORE TO WATCH:  Summer action sports content will make a triumphant return in July with more than 15 hours  of the best X Games 2021 competitions airing on ESPN, ABC and ESPN2 throughout the weekend. One of action sports’ most popular personalities, Jack Mitrani, will return with a team of veteran X Games athletes and industry experts to steer coverage of X Games 2021 from Southern California. 

• @XGames Platforms: All competition will be streamed live on @XGames TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter social media handles.
  
• XGames.com: In addition to live results, XGames.com will provide behind-the-scenes profiles with top X Games stars and photo galleries shot by the best creative talent in the action sports industry.
• ESPN App: All 15.5 hours of X Games coverage will stream live on the ESPN App.
• International: In addition to all of the content on ESPN’s U.S.-based media platforms, X Games 2021 will be televised globally in 192 countries and territories to more than 500 million homes 

Shred Hate, Choose Kindness Returns to Telecast

Since 2017, X Games events and athletes have rallied behind Shred Hate, Choose Kindness in an effort to ignite student compassion to eradicate bullying. Throughout the telecast, X Games athletes will share their experiences with bullying as well as their efforts to shred hate.

BRAND NEW FEATURE DOCUMENTARY STARRING POPPY STARR OLSEN - THE ONLY FEMALE PARK SKATEBOARDER TO REPRESENT AUSTRALIA IN THE TOKYO OLYMPICS IS COMING TO iTUNES TODAY 

Poppy Starr Olsen is Australia’s number one Park Skateboarder who at aged 16 was the first Australian female skateboarder to be invited to compete in the X Games. Officially ranked world number 4 female park skateboarder, Poppy will make history again by being the first and only female to represent Australia in the Tokyo Olympics in Women’s Park Skateboarding, which will be held on 3rd August 2021. 

 Watch now on iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/movie/tall-poppy-a-skaters-story/id1574021549 

Also available outside Australia on Vimeo On Demand in multiple languages (Brazil, Portugal, Japan, Spain & Italy) https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tallpoppy 

ABOUT THE FILM: 

A girl who just loved to skate from the age of eight, Poppy Starr Olsen became the number one female bowl skater in Australia at 14 and went on to take out bronze at the X Games at 17 - the ultimate competition in the world of skateboarding. The same year, skateboarding was announced as an official additional sport category at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Now faced with the opportunity to represent Australia on the world stage Poppy grapples with the transition from skater to athlete and the pressure of competition mounts in a way it has never done before. A coming of age story told over 12 years, TALL POPPY: A SKATER’S STORY documents Poppy’s journey intimately as she navigates the uncomfortable idea of what it means to be a competitive athlete, the complexities of a relationship with a mum turned manager and finding her place in a male-dominated industry.

"My crazy, wild, beautiful life so far.. it’s a little weird (having a film made about you) but I hope it helps others know that they’re not alone and it’s not always as easy as it looks on the outside” 

~ Poppy Starr Olsen

The ‘TALL POPPY: A SKATERS STORY’ documentary has been produced by Sydney-based production company,  Candid Films Australia. The film was made possible with funding from Screen Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and development support from Screen NSW. Production partners include the City of Newcastle and Optus.  Strategic brand partners include The Berrics and VANS. The film is being distributed by Garage Entertainment and is directed by Justine Moyle.

“We met Poppy when she was just eight years old, she's now 21. We've been lucky enough to observe the coming of age of an ordinary girl who just loves to skate, the transition from a lifestyle to an Olympic sport, what it's like for a girl to find her true identity in the male-dominated world of international competition, and fall in love for the first time. Justine has captured her life story beautifully after years of dedicated work, and we are both really excited to share this intimate film with the world.” ~ Jo Austin, Producer (and Founder of Candid Films)

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