Paris 2024 Olympics - Skateboarding Training - La Concorde 3, Paris, France - July 25, 2024. Poe Pinson of United States during training. REUTERS/Angelika Warmuth
PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris Games have fully embraced skateboarding, with its youthful appeal and blockbuster television ratings, but skaters say they have to stay off their boards inside the Olympic village.
American women's park competitor Minna Stess had been eager to ride her board around the 52-hectare village, where some 14,500 athletes and their staff are free to mingle without the COVID restrictions that limited competitors at the Tokyo Games.
