The father-of-three will become the oldest-ever Olympic skateboarder.
Andrew Macdonald, 50, will represent Great Britain at the Olympics this summer Great Britain’s skateboarding team for the Olympics in Paris this summer will include Andrew Macdonald, a 50-year-old father-of-three. Macdonald will be joined on Great Britain’s skateboarding team by two teenagers, Lola Tambling, 16, and Sky Brown, 15, who made history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after becoming Britain’s youngest summer medallist with her bronze.
Sky Brown, who won bronze for Team GB at Tokyo 2020, will represent Great Britain again this summer Macdonald admitted he needed a ‘miracle’ to qualify but delivered an impressive performance in the final qualifier in Budapest on Sunday. ‘Getting a qualification place at the Olympics is something I never thought would happen,’ Macdonald said. ‘It took a hundred things aligning for me to get the points needed and luckily for me, they did.
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